Description
New feature is included in FortiOS 7.0.0 to allow HA failover due to memory utilization.
In the scenario where the existing master’s memory utilization exceed the threshold configured by the administrator for a specific amount of time.
This article describes how to configure and validate HA failover due to memory utilization.
Note.
The value used is a demonstration purpose, a higher threshold shall be configured in production environment to prevent frequent failover of HA master.
Solution
Initial Configuration.
In existing environment, a HA pair with A-P setup is configured with FortiOS 7.0.0. As visible from the following print screen, FortiGate with hostname Kancil-kvm39 is selected as the master as it was configured with higher priority:
The current memory utilization of the FortiGate where the Primary FortiGate is currently has memory utilization of 64% and slave unit on 49%.
Testing.
To demonstrate memory based failover based on this scenario, the following parameters is used for testing purpose:
# config system haOnce the above is configured, HA failover due to memory utilization is appropriately configured.
set memory-based-failover enable
set memory-failover-threshold 62
set memory-failover-monitor-period 300
set memory-failover-sample-rate 1
set memory-failover-flip-timeout 6
end
The commands above will trigger failover when the memory usage on Primary unit exceeds 62% for 300 seconds (5 minutes).
If the memory usage on the Kancil-kvm39 goes below 62%, while memory utilization on Iriz-kvm58 rises above 62%, a second failover will occur.
However, the failover due to memory utilization will occur only after the timeout period that was set in memory-failover-flip-timeout. In this example, a second failover will only occur after 6 minutes from the first memory based failover.
If both FortiGates memory utilization is above the threshold (62% in this example), no failover will be triggered.
Verification.
If both FortiGates memory utilization is above the threshold (62% in this example), no failover will be triggered.
Verification.
To verify that memory-based HA failover is working, turn on the debug message for hatalk with the following command:
# diagnose debug application hatalk -1A message indicating that mem-failover-flag changed will be shown in the debug messages:
# diagnose debug enable
Login into the FortiGate and notice that the failover secondary appears:
