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Chapter 46 Monitoring Failover
Monitoring Failover in the System Execution Space
For More Information
For more information about failover in general, see Understanding Failover.
Failover Group 1 and Failover Group 2
The Failover Group 1 and Failover Group 2 panes display the failover state of the selected group.You
can also control the failover state of the group by toggling the active/standby state of the group or by
resetting a failed group.
Fields
Failover state of Group[x]—Display only. Displays the failover state of the selected failover group. The
information shown is the same as the output you would receive from the show failover group command
and contains the following information:
• Last Failover—The time and date of the last failover.
• This Host/Other Host—For each host 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. The
following information is also shown for the failover group:
Active—The failover group is active on the specified unit.
Standby—The failover group is in the standby state on the specified 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 failover group is in the failed state on the specified unit.
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Active Time—The amount of time, in seconds, that the failover group has been in the active
state on the specified unit.
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context_name Interface name (n.n.n.n)—For each interface in the selected failover group, the
display shows the context to which it belongs and the IP address currently being used on each
unit, as well as one of the following conditions.
Failed—The interface has failed.
Link Down—The interface line protocol is down.
Normal—The interface is working correctly.
No Link—The interface has been administratively shut down.
Unknown—The security appliance cannot determine the status of the interface.
(Waiting)—The interface has not yet received any polling messages from the other unit.
Testing—The interface is being tested.
• Stateful Failover Logical Updates Statistics—The following fields relate to the Stateful Failover
feature. If the Link field shows an interface name, then the Stateful Failover statistics are shown.
Link—Displays one of the following:
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interface_name—The interface used for the Stateful Failover link.
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Unconfigured—You are not using Stateful Failover.
Stateful Obj—For each field type, the following statistics are displayed: