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Configuring Active/Active Failover
This chapter describes how to configure Active/Active failover and includes the following sections:
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Information About Active/Active Failover, page 1-1
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Licensing Requirements for Active/Active Failover, page 1-7
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Prerequisites for Active/Active Failover, page 1-7
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Guidelines and Limitations, page 1-8
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Configuring Active/Active Failover, page 1-9
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Remote Command Execution, page 1-22
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Monitoring Active/Active Failover, page 1-26
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Feature History for Active/Active Failover, page 1-26
Information About Active/Active Failover
This section describes Active/Active failover. This section includes the following topics:
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Active/Active Failover Overview, page 1-1
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Primary/Secondary Status and Active/Standby Status, page 1-2
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Device Initialization and Configuration Synchronization, page 1-3
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Active/Active Failover Overview
Active/Active failover is only available to ASAs in multiple context mode. In an Active/Active failover
configuration, both ASAs can pass network traffic.
In Active/Active failover, you divide the security contexts on the ASA into
failover groups
. A failover
group is simply a logical group of one or more security contexts. You can create a maximum of two
failover groups. The admin context is always a member of failover group 1. Any unassigned security
contexts are also members of failover group 1 by default.
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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