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piaakit1210
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December 21, 2023
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Monitor Interfaces for High Availability devices question

Dear All, 

 

       I have 2 x fortigate 201F with HA, port 23 & 24 were connected to each other for HA, may i ask for monitor interfaces which interface i should be added for this ? does it means if i added a interface for example port3, if this port3 were disconnected, the whole devices will be failover to the secondary device ? any help would be appreicated  

 

piaakit  

smaruvala
smaruvalaAnswer
Staff
December 21, 2023

Hi,

 

- You should be monitoring the interface which are connected and passing the critical traffic in your network. Please refer the below document.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Best-Practices-for-Interface-monitoring-port/ta-p/190138

 

Regards,

Shiva

3 replies

smaruvala
Staff
smaruvalaAnswer
Staff
December 21, 2023

Hi,

 

- You should be monitoring the interface which are connected and passing the critical traffic in your network. Please refer the below document.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Best-Practices-for-Interface-monitoring-port/ta-p/190138

 

Regards,

Shiva

piaakit1210
New Member
December 21, 2023

as the current HA devices already configured sd wan with 2 circuits with load balancing, if i enable monitoring interfaces, does it means they have the same result to failover internet circuit

Hong_FTNT
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
December 21, 2023

Hi @piaakit1210, 

 

If Monitor interface is down, it will trigger HA failover. 

 

Regards, 

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