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Active/Passive HA - Technical details: "How does it work?"

scottsander — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:44:20 GMT

I manage our active/passive HA pair of PA-3050 firewalls currently running PAN-OS 7.0.8. These were migrated a few years ago from PA-2020 devices that were put in by a previous network administration regime.

Our current network administration team is asking for technical details on how active/passive HA works on the PAN equipment, but I don't know the answer and can't find the information (other than how to configure it in PAN-OS).

Is there a good source of a technical description on how PAN's implemention of active/passive HA works, especially for PA-3050 devices?

Re: Active/Passive HA - Technical details: "How does it work?"

TranceforLife — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:57:36 GMT

Hi,

Did you try admin guide page 210?

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/assets/pdf/framemaker/70/pan-os/pan-os/section_5.pdf

Config and operation the same across all models (a bit different on PA-200) but that is not your case. But just in case details below:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Learning-Articles/What-is-HA-Lite-on-Palo-Alto-Networks-PA-200-and-VM-Series/ta-p/62553

Re: Active/Passive HA - Technical details: "How does it work?"

scottsander — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:58:08 GMT

Good stuff! Thanks!