SonicOS/X 7 High Availability
Crash Detection
The HA feature has a thorough self-diagnostic mechanism for both the Active and Standby Security Appliances. The failover to the standby unit occurs when critical services are affected, physical (or logical) link failure is detected on monitored interfaces, or when the Security Appliance loses power.
The self-checking mechanism is managed by software diagnostics, which check the complete system integrity of the Security Appliance. The diagnostics check internal system status, system process status, and network connectivity. There is a weighting mechanism on both sides to decide which side has better connectivity to avoid potential failover looping.
Critical internal system processes such as NAT, VPN, and DHCP (among others) are checked in real time. The failing service is isolated as early as possible, and the failover mechanism repairs it automatically.
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