Description | This article describes an issue where HA failover does not happen immediately when link monitor fails. Initial HA failover is triggered only after the flip-timeout expires. |
Scope | FortiGate v7.4.7 +,v7.6.0, v7.6.3. |
Solution |
This is the HA configuration and the LAN interface are being monitored : config system ha Link Monitor configuration:
LAN Interface configuration:
end
config system virtual-switch end
When X1 is brought down and the link monitor fails, HA failover does not happen. Initial failover happens only when the flip-out timer expires, which means the lowest value that can be set is 6 minutes. This issue happens only when the cluster uptime is less than 6 minutes. This issue has been addressed on v7.6.4.
Troubleshooting:
diagnose sys ha dump-by group diagnose debug application link-monitor -1 diagnose debug console timestamp enable
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