Showing posts with label failover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label failover. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 August 2026

investigate failover on palo alto firewall

 Log into both firewalls

In the Dashboard > High Availability widget, you may notice the primary has change from active to passive.

On both firewalls go to 

  • Monitor > System
  • Filter the log 
  • subtype eq ha

You should see a reason for the failover. 

Often the link monitors fail (internet connection issue). You can check them here

  • Device > High Availability > Link and Path Monitoring 
  • Link group will show the interfaces that need to be up (Layer 2)
  • Path group will show the IP's the firewall will try to ping to confirm link is up (Layer 3)

 Have seen the auto updates trigger failovers as well