7-2. Configuring Firewall Failover

To configure failover on a pair of Cisco firewalls, you can use the configuration steps listed in this section. Before failover is configured and enabled, you need to enter the configuration commands on each firewall. After failover is enabled, all configuration commands should be entered only on the active firewall. This is because the active unit replicates the configuration commands to the standby unit automatically. The only exception is any command related to failover itself.

For active-active failover, all failover configuration commands must be entered on the system execution space of the firewall that is currently active for failover group 1. This is because the failover for the system space is always ...

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