Cisco Cisco FirePOWER Appliance 8130
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FireSIGHT System User Guide
Chapter 6 Managing Devices
Configuring High Availability
Step 15
If you used a unique NAT ID on the secondary Defense Center, type the same registration ID that you
used in step
used in step
in the
Unique NAT ID
text box.
Step 16
Click
Register
.
A success message appears, and the Peer Manager page appears, showing the current state of the primary
Defense Center.
Defense Center.
Monitoring and Changing High Availability Status
License:
Any
Supported Defense Centers:
DC1000, DC1500, DC3000, DC3500
After you have identified your primary and secondary Defense Centers, you can use one of them to view
status information about the other, including:
status information about the other, including:
•
IP address
•
product model
•
operating system
•
operation system version
•
the local role (Active & Primary, Inactive & Primary, Inactive & Secondary, or Active & Secondary)
•
time the Defense Centers last synchronized
You can also use the High Availability page to change the roles of the Defense Centers if the primary
Defense Center fails. Because the system restricts the following functionality to the primary Defense
Center, if that appliance fails, you must promote the secondary Defense Center to Active:
Defense Center fails. Because the system restricts the following functionality to the primary Defense
Center, if that appliance fails, you must promote the secondary Defense Center to Active:
•
Updates to URL category and reputation data; see
for more information.
•
Updates to Security Intelligence feeds; see
for
more information.
•
Associations between correlation rules and responses; see
more information.
To check high availability status:
Access:
Admin
Step 1
Log into one of the Defense Centers that you linked using high availability.
Step 2
Select
System > Local > Registration
.
The Registration page appears.
Step 3
Click
High Availability
.
The High Availability page appears.
Step 4
Under
High Availability Status
, you can view the following information about the other Defense Center in
the high availability pair:
•
the IP address
•
the model name