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Status – The values in this field are prepended with Primary or Secondary, depending on which appliance the table is being viewed. The possible values are:
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Active – This appliance is in the ACTIVE state.
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Standby – This appliance is in the STANDBY state.
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Disabled – High Availability has not been enabled in the management interface of this appliance.
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Not in a steady state – HA is enabled and the appliance is neither in the ACTIVE nor the STANDBY state.
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Primary State - The current state of the Primary appliance as a member of an HA Pair. The Primary State field is displayed on both the Primary and the Secondary appliances.
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ACTIVE – The Primary unit is handling all the network traffic except management/monitoring/licensing traffic destined to the STANDBY unit.
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STANDBY – The Primary appliance is passive and is ready to take over on a failover.
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ELECTION – The Primary and Secondary units are negotiating which should be the ACTIVE unit.
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SYNC – The Primary unit is synchronizing settings or firmware to the Secondary.
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ERROR – The Primary unit has reached an error condition.
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REBOOT – The Primary unit is rebooting.
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NONE – When viewed on the Primary unit, NONE indicates that HA is not enabled on the Primary. When viewed on the Secondary unit, NONE indicates that the Secondary unit is not receiving heartbeats from the Primary unit.
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Secondary State – The current state of the Secondary appliance as a member of an HA Pair. The Secondary State field is displayed on both the Primary and the Secondary appliances.
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ACTIVE – The Secondary unit is handling all the network traffic except management/monitoring/licensing traffic destined to the STANDBY unit.
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STANDBY – The Primary appliance is passive and is ready to take over on a failover.
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ELECTION – The Secondary and Primary units are negotiating which should be the ACTIVE unit.
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SYNC – The Secondary unit is synchronizing settings or firmware to the Primary.
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ERROR – The Secondary unit has reached an error condition.
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REBOOT – The Secondary unit is rebooting.
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NONE – When viewed on the Secondary unit, NONE indicates that HA is not enabled on the Secondary. When viewed on the Primary unit, NONE indicates that the Primary unit is not receiving heartbeats from the Secondary unit.
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Active Up Time – Indicates how long the current Active firewall has been Active since it last became Active:
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High Availability Disabled – This line only displays when High Availability is disabled.
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High Availability > Status, High Availability Status table
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Node Status – Indicates if Active/Active Clustering is enabled or is not enabled.
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Found Peer – Indicates Yes if the Primary appliance has detected the Secondary appliance, and No if there is no HA link or if the Secondary is rebooting.
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Settings Synchronized – Indicates if the settings are synchronized between the two appliances. This includes all settings that are part of the system preferences, for example, NAT policies, routes, user accounts. Possible values are Yes or No.
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Stateful HA Synchronized – Indicates if the Standby appliance is synchronized with the initial state of the Active appliance (TCP sessions, VPN tunnels) when they discover each other. The possible values are Yes and No. No could mean that the stateful synchronization process for the initial state is in progress.
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NOTE: No is also displayed if Stateful HA is not enabled or licensed on either of the units.
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