Redundancy add new device to peer list

Hi Mawad,

 

before adding a new device to list of trusted peers it will be necessary to have the settings done for failover, config sync and mirroring.

 

These settings can be found in WebUI via Device Managment > Devices > Device Properties (Connectivity).

 

Another nice-to-have from my perspective is a unique device certificate. But that´s not mandatory.

 

Device trust is independent from device certificates. Instead so called device trust device identity certificates (dtdi.crt) are used which are signed by the device trust certificate authority (dtca.crt) of the device group.

 

To rebuild a cluster I used to set all but one device into "forced offline" mode, reset device trust on all machines, make sure to have settings done as described above and start to add peers on the remaining active unit.

 

This needs to be done on the active unit only.

 

Once you are done, you can add all devices to a sync-failover device-group and do the initial sync.

 

One more thing to mention: forcing a vCMP guest into device mode "forced offline" used to break all interface communications of this guest. That´s why this part will not work in vCMP environments (applies to TMOS v11.2.1 - v11.5.1 as far as I can say).

 

Thanks, Stephan