Friends,

here is the setup :

firewall1- Standby(failed)

firewall2- Active

these are firewall modules. out of some reason(which i need to find) , primary module suddenly stopped responding and failed over seemlessly to the secondary making it the active.( Switch fabrics remain in normal state with no hsrp failover).

I need to reload the now failed module. the only way i see is to reset module within switch fabric.this brings me to some doubts:

1. would the now active(fw2) go back to secondary state if failed module(fw1) is reset ( i.e. would fw1 become active again)

2. will this cause a disruption in traffic flow, if so what is the expected duration

3. all the interfaces on the failed one show as not monitored, apart from physical issues, is there anything else we need to look upon

Appreciate all your help on this.

Thanks in Advance.