From: L Pham (ccie17030@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2008 - 01:00:12 ART
Ok, I am on vacation so I do not wanna log in the FW and poke around
;-))) but from this:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_62/config/failover.htm
show failover with the field active time / uptime will indicate
something for ya.
HTH,
Loc
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Muhammad Ahmed <faisal3541@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Loc, I am trying to find out the uptime of the PIX in HA setup. It seems the
> PIX reports the uptime for the HA pair but not for the Primary or Secondary
> firewalls.
>
> I was able to establish from syslog data that the Primary unit was rebooted
> and then it was forced to become Active and has not failed over since then.
> In this scenario I was able to look at the output of the "show failover"
> command and rely on the "Active time" listed and hence I knew exactly how
> old the access-list hit counters were.
>
> The uptime listed in "sh ver" seems to rely on the availability of at least
> one unit in the HA pair. In the above case, even though Primary was rebooted
> 15 days ago, sh ver output is listing at that it has been up for 1 year 266
> days. It took this from the secondary unit.
>
> I guess now the question really is does anyone know how to determine the
> real uptime on a PIX in a HA pair via some command?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Muhammad
>
>
>
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>> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:40:33 -0700
>> From: ccie17030@gmail.com
>> To: faisal3541@hotmail.com
>> Subject: Re: PIX/ASA uptime
>> CC: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>
>> I am not res. for any of our FW but when it f/o: we do received a
>> page so something must be logged somewhere, what is your show log say
>> ?
>> Loc
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Muhammad Ahmed <faisal3541@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello gurus,
>> >
>> > Please help me out here. I do not have access to any spare PIX(s) so
>> > cannot
>> > test this for now.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to determine real uptime on PIX running 6.3.5 in a HA
>> > setup?
>> > What I see is that even though the standby might have rebooted it still
>> > shows
>> > the same uptime as the Active unit.
>> >
>> > I am reviewing the access-list hitcnt essentially to determine how old
>> > are the
>> > access-list counters. I would rely on sh uptime from the "sh ver"
>> > command but
>> > I am reluctant to trust it now that I know the standby has rebooted
>> > before the
>> > 265 days listed as the uptime value.
>> >
>> > Also, can someone please tell me if the hitcnt on access-list on the
>> > Primary
>> > PIX replicate to the Standby in case there is a failover?
>> >
>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Muhammad
>> >
>> >
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