HSRP on MgmtEth interfaces

[Tom Marcoen]

I have configured HSRP on the two RSP MgmtEth interfaces so I can manage the router from the same IP address regardless of the active RSP:

router hsrp
  interface MgmtEth0/RSP0/CPU0/0
    address-family ipv4
      hsrp 1 version 1
        timers 1 3
        preempt
        priority 105
        address 10.0.0.1
  !
  interface MgmtEth0/RSP1/CPU0/0
    address-family ipv4
      hsrp 1 version 1
        timers 1 3
        address 10.0.0.1
  !

When I do show hsrp commands the HSRP configuration seems to be working. The L2 switch connecting to these MgmtEth interfaces also see the MAC address on the correct interface. But ICMP/SSH are not working. The control-plane configuration is rather basic:

control-plane
  management-plane
    out-of-band
      interface all
        allow SSH
        allow SNMP
        allow TFTP
        allow Telnet
!

Is it unsupported to run HSRP over MgmtEth interfaces or am I missing something?

[Aleksandar Vidakovic]

hi Tom,

Virtual Management Interface was introduced exacty for this purpose. If you enter  "asr9000 ipv4 address virtual address" in any Internet search engine you should find docs that explain how to use it.

One reference doc is: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr9000/software/asr9k_r5-2/interfaces/configuration/guide/hc52xasr9kbook/hc52loop.pdf

Regards,

Aleksandar