PIX PIX-515E need to failover on primary box

[Sunil Patil]

Hi

I have failover on PIX-515E, before some days my primary box gone faulty so i recived the new rma box, now i want to installed that box in network currently my network is running on secondary box.i have installed the required licences and also upgarde the IOS on RMA box. The box is in serial failover.

Please suggest me the steps for introducing the RMA (Primary) boc in the network. As i want RMA box should work as primary itself.

[jyothydas]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_configuration_example09186a00807dac5f.shtml

Just plug the new box to network; connect cables like what the old box had and follow the commands said in the above link.

Replace the Failed Unit with a New Unit

Complete these steps in order to replace a failed unit with a new unit:

1. Run the no failover command on the primary unit.

   The status of the secondary unit shows standby unit as not detected.

2. Unplug the primary unit, and connect the replacement primary unit.

3. Verify that the replacement unit runs the same software and ASDM version as the secondary unit.

4. Run these commands on the replacement unit:

   ASA(config)#failover lan unit primary 
   ASA(config)#failover lan interface failover Ethernet3
   ASA(config)#failover interface ip failover 10.1.0.1 255.255.255.0 standby 10.1.0.2
   ASA(config)#interface Ethernet3
   ASA(config-if)#no shut 
   ASA(config-if)#exit
   

5. Plug the replacement primary unit to the network, and run this command:

   ASA(config)#failover
   

[Sunil Patil]

Hi

thanks for ur reply

But i have confiusion in that becoz i want to enable the serial based failover and i thing u given the command for lan base failover.

please give me command to enable serial base failover

[jyothydas · Accepted solution]

Follow the steps under

Cable-Based Active/Standby Failover Configuration (PIX Security Appliance Only)