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HA First time Configuration

welly_59 — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:33:11 GMT

Im installing a single Palo at present with the intent of adding a standby unit in the near future. My question is regarding the interface addresses on the standby unit.

What do i need to configure on the standby unit in regards to IP addressing apart from MGMT and HA interfaces? I cant see an option for standby IP addresses (like Cisco), so the question is do i need to configure addresses on the INSIDE/OUTSIDE interfaces on a standby unit, or will it just take the ACTIVE IP Addresses when needed?

Re: HA First time Configuration

pulukas — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:41:24 GMT

You won't need to configure anything else on the standby device. Once it joins as an HA pair they are treated as a single device and the shared configuration elements are all inherited from the primary device. And you manage and do all the future configuration from the primary device once joined.

Re: HA First time Configuration

RobinClayton — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:07:20 GMT

There are a few minor config elements that don't copy across but no need to wory about them too much.

the conifg should be set to auto-sync.

Rob

Re: HA First time Configuration

BPry — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:15:56 GMT

@welly_59,

As @RobinClayton pointed out there are a few things that don't actually copy over in the HA sync process. That list can be found HERE