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Cisco ASDM User Guide
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Chapter 46 Monitoring Failover
Monitoring Failover in Single Context Mode or in a Security Context
Fields
Failover state of the system—Display only. Displays the failover state of the security appliance. The
information in this field is the same output you would receive from the show failover command. The
following information is included in the display:
Note Only a subset of the fields below appear when viewing the failover status within a security context.
Those fields are indicated by an asterisk (*) before the field name.
• *Failover—Displays “On” when failover is enabled, “Off” when failover is not enabled.
• Cable Status—(PIX security appliance platform only) Displays the status of the serial failover cable.
The following shows possible cable states:
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Normal—The cable is connected to both units, and they both have power.
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My side not connected—The serial cable is not connected to this unit. It is unknown if the cable
is connected to the other unit.
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Other side is not connected—The serial cable is connected to this unit, but not to the other unit.
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Other side powered off—The other unit is turned off.
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N/A—LAN-based failover is enabled.
• Failover unit—Displays the role of the system in the failover pair, either “Primary” or “Secondary”.
• Failover LAN Interface—Displays the logical and physical name of the LAN failover interface. If
you are using the dedicated failover cable on the PIX platform, this field displays “N/A -
Serial-based failover enabled”. If you have not yet configured the failover interface, this field
displays “Not configured”.
• Unit Poll frequency/holdtime—Displays how often hello messages are sent on the failover link and
how long to wait before testing the peer for failure if no hello messages are received.
• Interface Poll frequency—Displays the interval, in seconds, between hello messages on monitored
interfaces.
• Interface Policy—Displays the number of interfaces that must fail before triggering failover.
• Monitored Interfaces—Displays the number of interfaces whose health you are monitoring for
failover.
• failover replication http—Displayed if HTTP replication is enabled.
• *Last Failover—Displays the time and date the last failover occurred.
• *This Host(Context)/Other Host(Context)—For each host (or for the selected context in multiple
context mode) in the failover pair, the following information is shown:
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Primary or Secondary—Displays whether the unit is the primary or secondary unit. Also
displays the following status:
*Active—The unit is the active unit.
*Standby—The unit is the standby unit.
*Disabled—The unit has failover disabled or the failover link is not configured.
*Listen—The unit is attempting to discover an active unit by listening for polling messages.
*Learn—The unit detected an active unit, and is not synchronizing the configuration before
going to standby mode.
*Failed—The unit is failed.