7-4. Managing Firewall Failover
By nature, firewall failover is a feature that can take action automatically, based on whether two firewalls are operational and connected. You might want to monitor or troubleshoot the failover mechanism on a failover pair so that you can verify its operation. As well, there might be occasions when you need to manually force the failover action between the peers. The following sections cover these topics.
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When you connect to a firewall remotely, it isn't always apparent which unit is the active one. Because the active unit configuration is replicated to the standby unit, the command-line prompt (and the underlying host name) is identical on both units. This can make interacting ...
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