HA active-active rebooting

[fendy]

Hi all,

I have 2 firewalls configured as active-active HA. Now I need to format disk for it to enable the logging. 

My question now is; when I do the format disk on the 1st unit (system reboot), will the network get directed to 2nd unit causing 1 ping drop? or will both units go down at the same time?

Thanks in advance,

D 

[Carl_Wallmark · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you format the disk, only the firewall you are connected to will reboot.

I would do it like this:

First connect to the "slave":

execute ha manage 0                 

then format the disk:

execute disk format 0

The slave unit will reboot, wait until it´s up and running again, then perform the format on the master unit,

And yes, the cluster will do a failover and you will probably only loose a ping.

[fendy]

Thank you so much for the reply. It's very helpful =)