Suspend HA
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Suspend HA

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Suspend HA

Suspend high availability (HA) for a managed firewall in an active/passive HA configuration from Strata Cloud Manager.
Contact your account team to enable Cloud Management for NGFWs using Strata Cloud Manager.
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • NGFW (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
  • VM-Series, funded with Software NGFW Credits
  • AIOps for NGFW Premium license (use the Strata Cloud Manager app)
You can suspend your managed firewalls in an active/passive high availability (HA) configuration to force an HA failover or to verify that a failover successfully occurs.
  1. Log in to Strata Cloud Manager.
  2. Suspend HA for the HA peer.
    1. Select WorkflowsNGFW SetupDevice Management and locate the HA peer for which you want to suspend HA.
    2. In the Actions column, expand the menu and Suspend HA.
      Click OK to confirm suspending HA on the HA peer.
    3. Verify the HA status for the now suspended HA peer displays suspended.
  3. Restore HA for the suspended HA peer.
    1. Select WorkflowsNGFW SetupDevice Management and locate the suspended HA.
    2. In the Actions column, expand the menu and Restore HA.
      Click OK to confirm restoring HA on the suspended HA peer.
    3. Verify the HA status for the restored HA peer displays active.