Switch the Active Peer in the Firewall Threat Defense High Availability Pair

This task allows you to manually switch the active and standby units in a high availability pair, effectively forcing failover for reasons such as persistent fault or health events on the current active unit.

After you establish the Firewall 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 Firewall Threat Defense high availability pair. This ensures that the status on the Firewall Threat Defense high availability device pair is in sync with the status on the Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center.

Follow these steps to switch the active peer in the high availability pair:

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

Choose an option:

  • 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.