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VinayHM
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October 9, 2024

Troubleshooting Tip: The configuration changes not reflecting on the secondary device in HA

  • October 9, 2024
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Description This article describes that the changes made on the primary firewall will not sync with the secondary device.
Scope FortiGate, HA (A-A) (A-P).
Solution

If the changes made on the primary firewall are not syncing with the secondary device, it will cause HA to go out of sync.

It is possible to try and get the changes to synchronize by following these steps:

Stop the synchronization first on both devices and restart again by using the below commands.

 

execute ha synchronize stop

execute ha synchronize start

 

Recalculate the checksums by running this command on each device in the cluster:

 

diagnose sys ha checksum recalculate 


To get a CLI connection to the other devices, see Technical Tip: Managing individual cluster units with the CLI command 'execute ha manage'.

After that, run the following command and compare the checksum of both units:


diagnose sys ha checksum cluster

 

In some cases manual intervention is needed to get the cluster to go back in sync. It is recommend to follow this article:

Technical Tip: Procedure for manual synchronization for HA out-of-sync issue 

Related article:

Troubleshooting Tip: How to troubleshoot HA synchronization issue using GUI