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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Configuring Active/Standby Failover
Controlling Failover
Controlling Failover
This sections describes how to control and monitor failover. This section includes the following topics:
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Restoring a Failed Unit, page 1-17
Forcing Failover
To force the standby unit to become active, enter one of the following commands:
Disabling Failover
To disable failover, enter the following command:
Command
Purpose
failover mac address
phy_if active_mac
standby_mac
Example:
hostname (config): failover mac address
Ethernet0/2 00a0.c969.87c8 00a0.c918.95d8
Configures the virtual MAC address for an interface.
The
phy_if
argument is the physical name of the interface, such as
Ethernet1. The
active_mac
and
standby_mac
arguments are MAC
addresses in H.H.H format, where H is a 16-bit hexadecimal digit. For
example, the MAC address 00-0C-F1-42-4C-DE would be entered as
000C.F142.4CDE.
The
active_mac
address is associated with the active IP address for the
interface, and the
standby_mac
is associated with the standby IP address
for the interface.
You can also set the MAC address using other commands or methods, but
we recommend using only one method. If you set the MAC address using
multiple methods, the MAC address used depends on many variables, and
might not be predictable.
Use the
show interface
command to display the MAC address used by an
interface.
Command
Purpose
failover active
Example:
hostname#
failover active
Forces a failover when entered on the standby unit in a failover pair. The
standby unit becomes the active unit.
no failover active
Example:
hostname#
no failover active
Forces a failover when entered on the active unit in a failover pair. The
active unit becomes the standby unit.
Summary of Contents for 5505 - ASA Firewall Edition Bundle
Page 28: ...Glossary GL 24 Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide ...
Page 61: ...P A R T 1 Getting Started with the ASA ...
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Page 219: ...P A R T 2 Configuring High Availability and Scalability ...
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Page 403: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Interfaces ...
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Page 499: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Basic Settings ...
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Page 533: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Objects and Access Lists ...
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Page 601: ...P A R T 2 Configuring IP Routing ...
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Page 745: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Network Address Translation ...
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Page 845: ...P A R T 2 Configuring AAA Servers and the Local Database ...
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Page 981: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Access Control ...
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Page 1061: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Service Policies Using the Modular Policy Framework ...
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Page 1093: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Application Inspection ...
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Page 1191: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Unified Communications ...
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Page 1333: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Connection Settings and QoS ...
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Page 1379: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Advanced Network Protection ...
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Page 1475: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Modules ...
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Page 1549: ...P A R T 2 Configuring VPN ...
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Page 1965: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Logging SNMP and Smart Call Home ...
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Page 2059: ...P A R T 2 System Administration ...
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