Monitoring nodes in a failover pair

Question

Hi everyone,

I am looking to monitor nodes that are in a failover pair i.e. to cisco asa's that have separate IPs. I only seem to be able to add the asa that is currently running as the primary. The standby node though on doesn't allow connections, has anyone come across this before or have an environment similar that you have been successful to monitor both?

Thanks,

bdufresne · Answer

I would just utilize the management addresses to poll these devices.

mesverrum · Answer

The secondary member typically has their own unique IP address that we poll, unless something is different with the current versions of ASA.  You used to have to set up UNDP pollers to confirm which node was actually answering calls to their shared IP, but the latest versions of NPM have dedicated ASA features that make that unnecessary.