Solved: Cofiguring failover between two IDSM 2 blades in two identical 6500 switch

Vijayakumar Govindan · ‎08-02-2010

i have two core switch cisco 6500 , each switch has it own IDSM module. how to configure failover between IDSM module.

rhermes · ‎08-02-2010

The IPS software (on all appliances and IDSM blades) does not support a statefull failover (unlike Cisco's many firewall products). The way to perform a version of failover is to have both IDSMs running with the same policies and statefully have traffic move from one chassis to another (maning you should not have one side of a TCP session leave via on 6509 and return via the other).

- Bob

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rhermes · ‎08-02-2010

The IPS software (on all appliances and IDSM blades) does not support a statefull failover (unlike Cisco's many firewall products). The way to perform a version of failover is to have both IDSMs running with the same policies and statefully have traffic move from one chassis to another (maning you should not have one side of a TCP session leave via on 6509 and return via the other).

- Bob

Vijayakumar Govindan · ‎08-02-2010

Hi Bob, you mean to say that , i want to manually configure IDSM in individual switch.