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jaym222
jaym222
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May 20, 2016
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Changing Fortigate 200B firewall from HA Master to Standalone - Possible Issues

  • May 20, 2016
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Hello

 

I was going to upgrade a 200B firewall this evening at one of our branch offices. Going from v4.3.12 to v5.2.6

This is a single firewall that was at one time part of an active-passive HA pair.  The slave had been removed a while ago but The HA config on this FW, says that it is still MASTER and that HA Config is 'Active-Passive'.  I was concerned that if I applied an upgrade of the firmware and did a reboot, this could cause a possible failure or crash.  Could it have? 

 

My main question:  How do I set the firewall to 'STANDALONE' without impacting the current config(attached)? Is it as simple as going into HA Config and changing the Mode from Active-Passive to Standalone and hitting OK?

 

Of course my main concern is doing something improperly that brings down the firewall.

 

Thanks!

Best answer by emnoc

Nothing should be impacted. A a matter of  fact I would leave it like it is  due to;

 

1: nothing is brokene

2: if you ever decide to add a slave  back, it's already cfg

 

either way to set it back to standalone mode of operations.

 

config sys global

  config sys ha

   set mode stand

end

 

 

 

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emnoc
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May 20, 2016

Nothing should be impacted. A a matter of  fact I would leave it like it is  due to;

 

1: nothing is brokene

2: if you ever decide to add a slave  back, it's already cfg

 

either way to set it back to standalone mode of operations.

 

config sys global

  config sys ha

   set mode stand

end

 

 

 

jaym222
jaym222Author
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May 20, 2016

Thanks for the info.

 

 

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