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Information About Failover
This chapter provides an overview of the failover features that enable you to achieve high availability on
the Cisco 5500 series ASAs. For information about configuring high availability, see
“Configuring Active/Active Failover”
Chapter 1, “Configuring Active/Standby Failover.”
This chapter includes the following sections:
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Introduction to Failover and High Availability, page 1-1
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Failover System Requirements, page 1-2
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Failover and Stateful Failover Links, page 1-3
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Active/Active and Active/Standby Failover, page 1-8
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Stateless (Regular) and Stateful Failover, page 1-9
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Intra- and Inter-Chassis Module Placement for the ASA Services Module, page 1-11
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Transparent Firewall Mode Requirements, page 1-15
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Auto Update Server Support in Failover Configurations, page 1-16
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Failover Health Monitoring, page 1-18
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Introduction to Failover and High Availability
Configuring high availability requires two identical ASAs connected to each other through a dedicated
failover link and, optionally, a Stateful Failover link. The health of the active interfaces and units is
monitored to determine if specific failover conditions are met. If those conditions are met, failover
occurs.
The ASA supports two failover configurations, Active/Active failover and Active/Standby failover. Each
failover configuration has its own method for determining and performing failover.
With Active/Active failover, both units can pass network traffic. This also lets you configure traffic
sharing on your network. Active/Active failover is available only on units running in multiple context
mode.
With Active/Standby failover, only one unit passes traffic while the other unit waits in a standby state.
Active/Standby failover is available on units running in either single or multiple context mode.
Both failover configurations support stateful or stateless (regular) failover.
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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