05-12-2022 01:15 AM
Hi
I am quite new to Palo Alto firewalls, but have worked with different vendors before.
When running a HA in Active/passive a central VIP for mgmt is usually setup, so you dont connect to the passive FW.
From what i see there is no VIP for mgmt in the HA setup i am working on here. Is that something that is setup wrong or ?
We have a dns name internally that points to one of the firewalls, but in case of failover this might end up being the passive node.
hope someone can enlighten me.
05-16-2022 02:51 AM - edited 05-16-2022 02:56 AM
Would you means you want to access current active firewall in same IP independent of which take a active?
You can set a loopback interface and set it permits for management traffic.
Since the passive firewall data-port will not turn on, you will always access to the current active firewall through that loopback interface IP.
You may refer below link
05-12-2022 01:29 AM
You are correct.
Palo Alto firewalls in HA need their own separate management IPs.
Kiki
05-12-2022 01:31 AM
So that how are people handling the management in a failover case ? just change the DNS entry or this there something easier ?
05-12-2022 01:34 AM
In most cases, each node has its own DNS name. In my lab, for example, I have
It's designed this way for a number of reasons, including so that each node can have its HA status controlled, reach out the internet for updates, telemetry forwarding, forward Syslog to external servers, etc.
05-12-2022 10:07 AM
Hello @hh_cloudio ,
What is the use case you are attempting to resolve? Just connecting or something else, more curious than anything?
Regards,
05-16-2022 12:27 AM
Just so in case of a failover that you allways connect to the active firewall. Its not a issue, i am just used to management via. a VIP so you allways connect to the active firewall.
05-16-2022 02:51 AM - edited 05-16-2022 02:56 AM
Would you means you want to access current active firewall in same IP independent of which take a active?
You can set a loopback interface and set it permits for management traffic.
Since the passive firewall data-port will not turn on, you will always access to the current active firewall through that loopback interface IP.
You may refer below link
05-19-2022 05:50 AM
That was just what i was looking for. Thanks!
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