HA on a PA-450 using Strata Cloud Manager

[James.Woodhouse1]

I’m attempting to configure active/passive HA on a PA-450 using Strata Cloud Manager as per this guide: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/ngfw/administration/high-availability/set-up-activepassive-ha/conf...

I’m aware a PA-450 doesn’t have dedicated HA ports, however when using Panorama I can set Eth1/7 & Eth1/8 to HA mode as shown in the image below and it works fine:

When using Strata Cloud Manager, HA mode is not an option on interface configuration.

Using the Strata HA workflow, I’m able to set HA-1 to use the management interface, but then unable to list data interfaces as candidate for HA-2,

I’ve ensured that data interfaces are configured and set to L3 mode on each firewall in the pair.

Does anyone have any experience with this please?

[MikeFreyman-WWT · Accepted solution]

The 'Interface Type' needs to be Default to be used for HA configuration in SCM. This needs to be configured in SCM at the Configuration Scope of each HA firewall.

That is what worked for me.

[James.Woodhouse1]

Thanks Mike, I'll try that next week.
Just to confirm is the Interface type 'default' only for the interfaces intended for HA-1 & HA-2, or ALL other data interfaces as well?

[MikeFreyman-WWT]

Just the interfaces you want to use for HA.