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Define HA Failover Conditions
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Set Up Active/Active HA
Verify Failover
To test that your HA configuration works properly, trigger a manual failover and verify that the firewalls transition states successfully.
Suspend the active firewall.
Select
Device
High Availability
Operational Commands
and click the
Suspend local device
link.
Verify that the passive firewall has taken over as active.
On the
Dashboard
, verify that the state of the passive firewall changes to
active
in the High Availability widget.
Restore the suspended firewall to a functional state. Wait for a couple of minutes, and then verify that preemption has occurred, if
Preemptive
is enabled.
On the firewall you previously suspended, select
Device
High Availability
Operational Commands
and click the
Make local device functional
link.
In the High Availability widget on the
Dashboard
, confirm that the firewall has taken over as the active firewall and that the peer is now in a passive state.
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