Switch the Active Peer in the Threat Defense High Availability Pair

After you establish the threat defense high availability pair, you can manually switch the active and standby units, effectively forcing failover for reasons such as persistent fault or health events on the current active unit. Both units should be fully deployed before you complete this procedure.

Before you begin

Refresh Node Status for a Single Threat Defense High Availability Pair. This ensures that the status on the threat defense high availability device pair is in sync with the status on the management center.

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Devices > Device Management.

Step 2

Next to the high availability pair where you want to change the active peer, click the Switch Active Peer.

Step 3

You can:

  • Click Yes to immediately make the standby device the active device in the high availability pair.
  • Click No to cancel and return to the Device Management page.