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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Configuring Active/Active Failover
Guidelines and Limitations
Guidelines and Limitations
This section includes the guidelines and limitations for this feature.
Context Mode Guidelines
Supported in multiple context mode only.
Firewall Mode Guidelines
Supported in routed and transparent firewall mode.
IPv6 Guidelines
IPv6 failover is supported.
Model Guidelines
Active/Active failover is not available on the Cisco ASA 5505.
Additional Guidelines and Limitations
No two interfaces in the same context should be configured in the same ASR group.
Configuring port security on the switch(es) connected to an ASA failover pair can cause communication
problems when a failover event occurs. This is because if a secure MAC address configured or learned
on one secure port moves to another secure port, a violation is flagged by the switch port security feature.
ASA failover replication fails if you try to make a configuration change in two or more contexts at the
same time. The workaround is to make configuration changes on each unit sequentially.
The following features are not supported for Active/Active failover:
•
To receive packets from both units in a failover pair, standby IP addresses need to be configured on
all interfaces.
•
The standby IP address is used on the security appliance that is currently the standby unit, and it
must be in the same subnet as the active IP address.
•
You can define a maximum number of two failover groups.
•
Failover groups can only be added to the system context of devices that are configured for multiple
context mode.
•
You can create and remove failover groups only when failover is disabled.
•
Entering the
failover group
command puts you in the failover group command mode. The
primary
,
secondary
,
preempt
,
replication http
,
interface-policy
,
mac address
, and
polltime interface
commands are available in the failover group configuration mode. Use the
exit
command to return
to global configuration mode.
•
The
failover polltime interface
,
failover interface-policy
,
failover replication http
, and
failover
mac address
commands have no affect on Active/Active failover configurations. They are
overridden by the following failover group configuration mode commands:
polltime interface
,
interface-policy
,
replication http
, and
mac address
.
•
When removing failover groups, you must remove failover group 1 last. Failover group1 always
contains the admin context. Any context not assigned to a failover group defaults to failover group 1.
You cannot remove a failover group that has contexts explicitly assigned to it.
•
VPN failover is unavailable. (It is available in Active/Standby failover configurations only.)
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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