Cable to failover to PIX515E

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• Cable to failover issue

  Someone know if when you buy 2 PIX 515 come with a cable to failover or do you buy one?

  Thank you!

  a failover cable is supplied with each unit.

• PIX 515E failover

  I have a pair of PIX 515E (6.3) running in failover mode. They are currently connected to a single chassis base. We are upgrading our network with the heart, dual 6500's. Is there a way to connect each PIX to a separate kernel (1 PIX - Core1, PIX 2 - Core2) to allow a failure of the base?

  Core 1 and Core 2 will have a L2 link between them. If the current active PIX is connected to Core1 and Core 1 dies, this would not lead to support PIX failover. All LAN traffic would go through Core 2, but since he does not have an active path to the active PIX 1, traffic would drop. My reasoning is correct?

  Is there a way to connect the PIX to two cores running V6.3?

  Hello

  If you use the cable-based failover, you can change the basis of LAN failover.

  Read http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/pix/pix63/configuration/guide/failover.html#wp1024836

  I hope this helps.

  Best regards.

  Massimiliano.

• PIX failover message

  I've recently updated the key for activation on a PIX and now get the message:

  ========================== NOTICE =========================

  This machine has been approved as a unit of secondary failover

  but it lacks a connection to a primary PIX entirely under license.

  Please check the connection of cable to failover to the

  primary system. This machine will restart at intervals

  in its current state.

  I don't want to use failover.

  I tried to disconnect the connector of switch but no change.

  So I have two problems, 1) whenever I make a configuration change, I get the "can not sync config are you high school", but more 2) he worry about the States in the above message that the device will restart at intervals!

  Anyone know how to disable this?

  Hello

  If you do not have this key in the activation message befor Exchange, then you got the incorrect license key. This means that you downgrated a PIX entirely under license in a PIX failover. Reply to the email that you have received the key to and ask the right key. Until you get the right key, your PIX will restart every day.

  I got a bad hit some time ago, that has been disable IPSEC and updated remotely. After the restart, I had to get out there and change the key because the VPN broke down.

  Hope this helps

  Norbert

• Failover with CVPN3030

  Hi all

  is it possible to run two of this CVPN3030 in failover mode, as two of Pix

  with cable to failover. And if so how do you.

  Thank you

  Richard

  Nothing beats failover is similar to what you have in the PIX, but the 30 x 0 has two features that work the same way.

  Load Balancing:

  Set up a group of 2 or more hubs in the form of load balancing. This group shares a logical IP that the user connects to, abd between them hubs will actually connect the user to the less loaded hub. If a hub fails, all users connected to the right that are disconnected, but they can reconnect now without doing any client changes and they get connected to one of the other hubs.

  Redundancy.

  Similar to balancing where the Group of hubs share IP addresses that the user connects to, but in this case the hubs decide on a primary and a backup. all users connect to primary, if that fails, they will are disconnected, but again, they can re - connect to without making any customer of changes, and they will connect to the hub of backup.

  Load Balancing is better that the cause of the redundancy (in my opinion) If you have a failure, at least you don't lose some of your users, not all. L2L tunnels in both scenarios is transparent and requires no user interaction.

  See the Config Guide for details (http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/vpn/vpn3000/3_6/config/index.htm).

• PIX 6.3 (4) failover strangeness with VLAN

  I have a failover pair 535 6.3 (4) running and have experienced strange things while he was trying to get the dynamic failover to work. We use the serial cable to failover and a GE dedicated to the traffic of State via a cable directly connected x. We have a mix of standard interfaces for non - VLAN'ed, but also a physical I / f including 10 ~ VLAN. We are well within the limits of i / f allowed on the PIX so that isn't a problem. Also the

  VLAN'ed i / f on the two firewalls connects via a 802. 1 q trunk on the same switch Procurve 9315. All the required them VLAN is configured as marked on the two ports on the switch.

  The problem we had was that all as-based interfaces on the VLAN and physics i / f associated with these virtual local networks were perpetually in the State (pending) and we had no stats in the status section of the command 'show fail', which implies to me that stateful failover did not in fact. Failover works and traffic passes regardless of which firewall is enabled.

  Based on things I've read that I concluded that the problem is probably that 'Hello' messages were not being seen on each VLAN. So I did a bunch of capture on the VLAN different i / f of the PIX expecting to see outgoing Hello in the local unit, but saw nothing. Then I had a thought that maybe they were sent out without a label on the physical I / f, so I made a capture on it and also got nothing else than to the Hellos coming out to the physical interface.

  What we did that fixed it was to add the VLAN physics to the list of allowed VLANS labeled on firewall connected switch ports. As if by magic the physics I / f to the Normal State, as did all the local VIRTUAL network interfaces, and we started to get statistics on the State of the output of the show fail command section.

  And yet a capture on any of the interfaces VLAN does still not show the Hellos, and a capture on the physical displays now the bidirectional Hello for the physical LAN. Weird.

  So my questions are:

  1 > why the VLAN interfaces are dependent on their physical I / f for failover. I was told that you need not have any IP or configured for physical integrity, nameif I / f it's just must be enabled for the VLAN I / fs to work.

  2 > how are the VLAN I / f passing Hellos to the other.

  I can include my config if that helps.

  Peter

  Peter,

  (1) why is a good question. AFAIK that is according to the doc (same link below)

  "When you set up failover for an interface VLAN, Hello packets are sent through the physical interface, so the physical interface must be configured with an ip address."

  (2) I don't think that they are:

  One of the guides

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/products/sw/secursw/ps2120/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a0080172786.html

  "Note that failover is supported with VIRTUAL local network interfaces. But the failover LAN interface command does not support VIRTUAL local network interfaces or failover link commands. "

  So basically it looks like helo packets are sent only on physical interfaces (dumped on any vlan you put them) and the VLAN will be "failover" If the pix, but if you had a failure in one vlan particular the pix would not notice it until the vlan the physical interface has been awarded to failed.

  Of course, it works in the equivalent level of the FWSM code - but FWSM never had the physical interfaces.

  The train 7.x supports subinterfaces, obviously.

  -Jason

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• Type of failover and the difference

  Hello

  I would like to know what are the different type of failover in PIX 515E with 6,3 OS.

  I want all the details of it.

  I am aware of LAN-based failover and failover with cable to failover.

  Why the failover cable is use and it is important.

  can any 1 give me details.

  Kind regards

  Riahi

  Hello

  hope this link helps.

  http://Cisco.com/en/us/products/sw/secursw/ps2120/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a008017278a.html

  regds

• PIX failover: failover cable disconnected and active the unit off

  Hi all

  We have 2 PIX 515E 6.3 (3) in the failover configuration (not stateful failover). Basically, the failover works very well. Recently, we did some testing of failover and had the following situation:

  When we force the active PIX failover cable is disconnected, the rest-aid box inactive and has not changed in the active state.

  It is the 'normal' behavior or is there something wrong?

  Thank you for your response.

  Daniel Ruch

  Daniel,

  As mentioned previously, the behavior you report is expected. If the failover cable is removed from a pair of PIX failover during the race, each PIX will maintain it's State as active it or standby PIX. Remove the failover cable in effect, disables the failover of both units to avoid having two devices moving to an active state.

  Does make sense? I'm still confused what about * why * you test this though. Is this something you think that will happen in your environment?

  Scott

• Firewall failover as a stand-alone box

  I have redundant PIX515E - UR + FO. I would need to test a special configuration for a short period. I have an idea to detach the pix look with a failover license, clear configuration and use it with a new configuration as a standalone box. After test I would be set back.

  See you any problem / risk with this procedure?

  Hi David,

  The pix only FO (6.1 and earlier versions) will not come upward WITHOUT the link to FO. The unit cannot become operational without attaching the failover for it.attached serial cable to it.

  6.2, the PIX only FO unrelated FO connected, will start and are online but not become active.

  The failover active command must be run manually to the active unit.

  The device recharges itself all 24 hours, requiring another manual failover active to make it active each time.

• Replication Failover clustering & Hyper-v on a two-node cluster

  Hello

  We have two identical servers.  One to use as a main server, which houses two virtual machines.  The other should be used as a back up in case the main server is not somehow.  We planned on using a solution of third-party software to back up our virtual machines and launch them in the event of failure of the principal server.  However, we discovered just gave the failover clustering in Windows Server R2 2012.

  We have tried to set up a cluster 2 nodes, with our virtual machines properly replicated to the backup server.  Excited by the present, we tried then to simulate failure of the primary server (by pulling on the cable network).  We were a little disappointed to find that the backup server is not automatically run virtual machines.  We did a survey and read than a solution of two nodes requires storage space for additional network (in addition to our two servers).

  I wonder if that's okay?  In other words, a two-node failover cluster requires separate network storage space.  If this is not correct, can someone point me to a set of instructions to correctly configure a two-node failover cluster that will automatically launch the virtual machines on the server backup (in the case of a failure of the principal server).

  Thank you

  Mike Goldweber

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.

• How long does take vertical port failover?

  We have the PS4110s, PS6110s and PS6210s couple, all redundantly connected to 2 switches (PS6210s don't have set up ETH0 on both controllers).

  We need to replace one of the switches. I guess once we have cables or the switch, vertical, tipping is expected to launch, no?

  Now the question is how in fact this changeover take? I found some inconclusive information as the 4110/6110, it might take up to a minute, 6210 being much faster?

  Will be basically be interruption in connectivity to the hosts connected to the tables and the case, how long?

  Most EQLs have currently active controller on the switch, which must be replaced.

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  Vertical flipping is almost instantaneous.  The failover time you speak is for controller all failover, not vertical port failover.

  Kind regards

  Don

• CM failover: planned behavior

  Hello

  I did some testing of failover on my PS6000 until I put it into production.  I am trying to decide if one of my tests is behaving the way it is supposed to, and my expectations are wrong, or if 1 CM at the other failover does not work correctly.

  My configuration:

  PS6000

  2 CMs with a wiring for all ETH 4.

  Eth0-2 are on both iSCSI network.

  ETH 3 is both management network.

  Tests:

  1. If I pull the network mgt on the active CM is not failover to the other CM.  I waited for ~ 5 minutes and nothing.  This should toggle the map on whether mgt network does not work?  I'm guessing that he cannot simply use the other Eth3 on the other CM since that works in assets: liabilities.

  2. If I pull all the Eths 4, it is not (less than 5 minutes at least) will switch to another CM.

  3. If I pull the CM, then it will set the other CM/ETH.

  All this problem seems correct?  I wait long enough so that the other CM pick up?  I don't know if I have a partial loss of the ETH CM (just the map content) or not, so maybe my test here is not of weight.  Pulling the CM (a true failure and lack of card) seemed to put the other CM upwards about 1 minute.

  Thank you.

  He was named 'changeover of controllers' because it's only a failover when a controller defective and not, if you pull the cables or the stop switch set!

  To be safe against your case 2. You must crosscable a controller to two or several switches and not one.

  Against problem 1 there is only one solution, which means to connect the cable series also. Don't forget that EQL is a controller configuration "active / standby" and not an active/active.

  The most recent PSx1xx have a "horizontal port failover" but do not know if this feature works also on the Port of MGMT iam.

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• ASA status interface failover: Normal (pending)

  I've been struggling with this, I have two ASA running 8.6 that show the interfaces being monitored as well.

  I'm under 9.2 on these and tell waiting interfaces. Also can I disable SPI monitored? I ask only the cause at the time where the IPS is a module of the SAA, if I had to restart, the units would be tipping. I don't know if it's the same now with the IPS is a software based inside the ASA running on a separate hard drive.

  ASA5515-01 # show failover
  Failover on
  Unit of primary failover
  Failover LAN interface: FAILOVER of GigabitEthernet0/5 (top)
  Frequency of survey unit 1 seconds, 15 seconds holding time
  Survey frequency interface 5 seconds, 25 seconds hold time
  1 political interface
  Watched 3 114 maximum Interfaces
  MAC address move Notification not defined interval
  Version: Our 9.2 (2) 4, Mate 4 9.2 (2)
  Last failover at: 03:55:44 CDT October 21, 2014
  This host: primary: enabled
  Activity time: 507514 (s)
  slot 0: ASA5515 rev hw/sw (1.0/9.2(2)4 State) (upward (Sys)
                    Interface to the outside (4.35.7.90): Normal (pending)
                    Interface inside (172.20.16.30): Normal (pending)
  Interface Mgmt (172.20.17.10): Normal (pending)
  Slot 1: IPS5515 rev hw/sw (N/A 7.1 (4) E4) State (to the top/to the top)
  IPS, 7.1 (4) E4, upward
  Another host: secondary - ready Standby
  Activity time: 0 (s)
  slot 0: ASA5515 rev hw/sw (1.0/9.2(2)4 State) (upward (Sys)
                    Interface (0.0.0.0) outdoors: Normal (pending)
  Interface (0.0.0.0) inside: Normal (pending)
  Interface (0.0.0.0) Mgmt: Normal (pending)
  Slot 1: IPS5515 rev hw/sw (N/A 7.1 (4) E4) State (to the top/to the top)
  IPS, 7.1 (4) E4, upward

  Failover stateful logical Update Statistics
  Relationship: unconfigured.

  ASA5515-01 # poster run | failover Inc.
  failover
  primary failover lan unit
  LAN failover FAILOVER GigabitEthernet0/5 interface
  failover interface ip FAILOVER 10.10.1.1 255.255.255.252 ensures 10.10.1.2
  ASA5515-01 # ping 10.10.1.2
  Type to abort escape sequence.
  Send 5, echoes ICMP 100 bytes to 10.10.1.2, time-out is 2 seconds:
  !!!!!
  Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = ms 02/01/10
  # ASA5515-01

  ------------

  I read also not to use a design where a cable is directly connected to each unit, and instead each interface must connect on a downstream switch port so that the status of the link is still up to a firewall interface if the other firewall interface fails. Otherwise, the two units detects a link down condition and assume that their own interface is down. Never really thought about it in that sense. Anyone use a direct attached cable and have problems?

  Hello

  I rarely troubleshoot failover configurations so I am little rusty with associated with these problems.

  First thing that comes to mind is that configurations under interfaces has "standby" configured IP address? I wondered as the changeover seems to be configured and the link between the units is fine but the unit ready standby shows just 0.0.0.0 for each interface.

  -Jouni

• "Move" failover to different / interface port

  Sorry if this is in the wrong place, we had if rarely to issues which were not covered otherwise I frequent this area.

  How is it difficult to change the interface used for active failover / standby? This is a pair of work, already configured with standby, but I need to move the cable crossed and tell them to use a different interface.
  Pair of ASA 5510, already put in place and work with failover, which was originally set on Ethernet port 0/3 by senior network administrator. It seems that its use of interfaces or ports he used things straight out of the examples on the web, including the interfaces used.
  The admin network senior retired last spring and left me "supported", gee, thanks.
  I need to make some changes and Ethernet port need for an important new project.
  The management interface 0/0 is unused and shut down. We manage by inside the interface from a specific inside subnet so do not need the interface dedicated management.
  I want to spend the shift IN management TO Ethernet 0/3 0/0

  * This is the current configuration:

  Output of the command: "sh run failover.

  failover
  primary failover lan unit
  failover failover lan interface Ethernet0/3
  failover failover Ethernet0/3 link
  failover interface ip failover 169.254.255.1 255.255.255.252 ensures 169.254.255.2

  * And it's the current 0/3 interface and management configuration:

  interface Ethernet0/3
  STATE/LAN failover Interface Description
  !
  interface Management0/0
  Speed 100
  full duplex
  Shutdown
  nameif management
  security-level 0
  no ip address
  OSPF cost 10

  I know that it can work on the management interface 0/0 because I see a lot of 'how to configure' as if the SAA is brand-new and several examples there indeed be setup on the management.

  I'm looking to find out how to take a pair of ASA is currently configured and has a functional work and all failover configuration simply "tilting move" to a different hole, or change the interfaces used for the 'heartbeat' somehow.

  I guess that's not difficult - but I also assume that there is a specific sequence of events that must occur in order to prevent the pair to enter the failover and switching of the main roles...
  For example - would have turned off or turn off the power switch and if so, how and on what ASA (frankly, I don't know how to access education secondary or standby if it needs to be done, suspended or on the rescue unit, because I never did that 'deep' a before config)
  CLI is very well - I'd be too comfortable in ASDM or cli.

  I really hope this makes sense - I have more than one convenience store and fixer than a designer or network engineer...
  And thank you very much - get this moved will release the interface I need and can really make a big bump in my list of project while the project manager is on vacation this week! I'd love to have done this and before his return.

  Oh, in case it is important as I said, it's running license and version shown here:

  Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 4,0000 1
  Version 6.4 Device Manager (7)

  Updated Friday, June 14, 12 and 11:20 by manufacturers
  System image file is "disk0: / asa844-1 - k8.bin.
  The configuration file to the startup was "startup-config '.

  VRDSMFW1 141 days 4 hours
  failover cluster upwards of 141 days 4 hours

  Material: ASA5510, 1024 MB RAM, Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz processor
  Internal ATA Compact Flash, 256 MB
  BIOS Flash M50FW080 @ 0xfff00000, 1024 KB

  Hardware encryption device: edge Cisco ASA - 55 x 0 Accelerator (revision 0 x 0)
  Start firmware: CN1000-MC-BOOT - 2.00
  SSL/IKE firmware: CNLite-MC-Smls-PLUS - 2.03
  Microcode IPSec:-CNlite-MC-IPSECm-HAND - 2.06
  Number of Accelerators: 1

  0: Ext: Ethernet0/0: the address is 0024.972b.e020, irq 9
  1: Ext: Ethernet0/1: the address is 0024.972b.e021, irq 9
  2: Ext: Ethernet0/2: the address is 0024.972b.e022, irq 9
  3: Ext: Ethernet0/3: the address is 0024.972b.e023, irq 9
  4: Ext: Management0/0: the address is 0024.972b.e01f, irq 11
  5: Int: not used: irq 11
  6: Int: not used: irq 5

  The devices allowed for this platform:
  The maximum physical Interfaces: unlimited perpetual
  VLAN maximum: 100 perpetual
  Guests of the Interior: perpetual unlimited
  Failover: Active/active perpetual
  VPN - A: enabled perpetual
  VPN-3DES-AES: activated perpetual
  Security contexts: 2 perpetual
  GTP/GPRS: Disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Premium peers: 2 perpetual
  AnyConnect Essentials: 250 perpetual
  Counterparts in other VPNS: 250 perpetual
  Total VPN counterparts: 250 perpetual
  Shared license: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect for Mobile: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Cisco VPN phone: disabled perpetual
  Assessment of Advanced endpoint: disabled perpetual
  Proxy UC phone sessions: 2 perpetual
  Proxy total UC sessions: 2 perpetual
  Botnet traffic filter: disabled perpetual
  Intercompany Media Engine: Disabled perpetual

  This platform includes an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

  Cluster failover with license features of this platform:
  The maximum physical Interfaces: unlimited perpetual
  VLAN maximum: 100 perpetual
  Guests of the Interior: perpetual unlimited
  Failover: Active/active perpetual
  VPN - A: enabled perpetual
  VPN-3DES-AES: activated perpetual
  Security contexts: 4 perpetual
  GTP/GPRS: Disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Premium peer: 4 perpetual
  AnyConnect Essentials: 250 perpetual
  Counterparts in other VPNS: 250 perpetual
  Total VPN counterparts: 250 perpetual
  Shared license: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect for Mobile: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Cisco VPN phone: disabled perpetual
  Assessment of Advanced endpoint: disabled perpetual
  Proxy UC phone sessions: 4 perpetual
  Proxy total UC sessions: 4 perpetual
  Botnet traffic filter: disabled perpetual
  Intercompany Media Engine: Disabled perpetual

  This platform includes an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

  Serial number: ABC12345678
  Running permanent activation key: eieioandapartridgeinapeartree
  Registry configuration is 0x1
  Last modified by me to 15:03:07.132 CDT MON Sep 15 2014 configuration

  Disconnect an interface monitored on your rescue unit that will ensure that it does not take as active. Then cut the failover link and modify its failover parameters. (You will need to first remove the nameif for M0/0).

  Then, make the changes on the primary unit similar free game active. Reconnect the failover link, confirm the synchronization of the units and finally reconnect the interface of production on the rescue unit.

• Deleting a failover of PIX

  We have two PIX 515 currently configured in a failover. We must remove the additional pix for a few days, is there something special we have to do, or should we just unplug it and let it do its normal failover. And since we're on the subject, which would need to be done when we put the pix in. Thanks in advance.

  If you delete the previous day, just turn it off and remove it, the active PIX remains active.

  If you remove the active PIX, do a "active failover" on the day before to make it active and then turn it off.

  Remember however that if your secondary PIX is a failover only license, then it restarts every 24 hours or so if it detects that the primary is not connected. When it happens you will have to do an another "active failover" manually in this topic, that it will not automatically become the active unit. Make sure you leave the failover cable connected to this unit, otherwise it starts up at all.