Hardware Bypass triggers

Hardware Bypass can be triggered in these scenarios.

  • Firewall Threat Defense crash

  • Firewall Threat Defense reboot

  • Security Module reboot

  • Chassis crash

  • Chassis reboot

  • Manual trigger

  • Chassis power loss

  • Security Module power loss

Note

Hardware bypass is intended for unplanned/unexpected failure scenarios, and is not automatically triggered during planned software upgrades. Hardware bypass activates only at the end of a planned upgrade process, when the Firewall Threat Defense application reboots.