Please see:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094e8c.shtml
standby track command allows you to specify another interface on the router for the HSRP process to monitor in order to alter the HSRP priority for a given group. If the line protocol of the specified interface goes down, the HSRP priority is reduced. This means that another HSRP router with higher priority can become the active router if that router has standby preempt enabled.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_configuration_example09186a0080bc1d0c.shtml is more relevant to your configuration
R2 is active for standby group 2 and 3 it will be forwarding traffic (although I think there is a misconfiguration in this).
If the tracked object was to go down on R2 it will definitely still be active for standby group 3, since it will still have a better priority value of 95 - 10 = 85 compared with R1, 80. It may still be active for standby group 2 (they'll be the same and will go down to tiebreakers) which seems to nullify the purpose of the track command. Because if the priority will always be higher, whether the tracked object goes down or not, there will be no point in it as it wont make a difference in which is the active gateway....
The default standby priority value is 100, the track command will monitor another interface to see if its in the up state, if it goes down then the track command decrements the value of the priority by specified number in the command. Although, there may be some misconfiguration on R1 or R2 in your example. I have added a config in blue below to give you an example of how this works.
The command highlighted in Red and blue specify the priority, lets take R1 Standby 2 commands compared with R2
R1 has priority 90 whereas R2 has priority 95, so R2 wins!
On R2 you are tracking 1 (say that interface was to go down) HSRP process would decrement the priority by 10 so all in all R2 will have a priority of 85 - since preempt is enabled then R1 would take over because of the priority of 90. Same vice versa
R1
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
description Inside Interface
ip address 192.168.182.3 255.255.255.0 secondary
standby 2 ip 192.168.182.1
standby 2 priority 90
standby 2 preempt
standby 2 track 1 decrement 10
R2
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
description Inside Interface
standby 2 ip 192.168.182.1
standby 2 priority 95
standby 2 preempt
standby 2 track 1 decrement 10
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I would configure your R1 and R2 like this:
R1
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
description Inside Interface
ip address 192.168.182.3 255.255.255.0 secondary
ip address 158.112.127.225 255.255.255.240 secondary
ip address 192.168.181.3 255.255.255.0 secondary
ip address 192.168.180.3 255.255.255.0
ip flow ingress
standby 2 ip 192.168.182.1
standby 2 priority 100 Default value
standby 2 preempt
standby 2 track 1 decrement 10
standby 3 ip 192.168.180.1
standby 3 priority 100 Default value
standby 3 preempt
standby 3 track 1 decrement 10
duplex full
speed 100
media-type rj45
no mop enabled
R2
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
description Inside Interface
ip address 192.168.180.2 255.255.255.0 secondary
ip address 192.168.181.2 255.255.255.0 secondary
ip address 192.168.182.2 255.255.255.0
ip flow ingress
standby 2 ip 192.168.182.1
standby 2 priority 95
standby 2 preempt
standby 2 track 1 decrement 10
standby 3 ip 192.168.180.1
standby 3 priority 95
standby 3 preempt
standby 3 track 1 decrement 10
duplex full
speed 1000
media-type rj45
no mop enabled
This would mean that R1 will be the active gateway because of the priority 100 (highest wins)
Only until the tracked object goes 'down' (all based on the status of the object).
The priority on R1 will then be 100 - 10 = 90.
Since preempt is enabled R2 will win since it has 95. This is then the active gateway.
In this case you may not need the track command under R2 since it wont be active all the time.
When R1 recovers and the tracked item is back 'up' then everything goes back to normal.
R1 then has the original priority of 100, and becomes the active gateway once again.
Or the otherway round with R2 being active. Or even R1 being active for one of the groups and R2 being active for the other.
Hope this helps
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