topic Re: Clustering in Azure in Cloud Firewall https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6952#M4214 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>ClusterXL in general works differently in Azure.</P><P>Specifically:&nbsp;</P><UL><LI>Sync happens over unicast (due to the fact Azure doesn't support Multicast or Broadcast)</LI><LI>Monitoring and failover happens using API calls to Azure</LI></UL><P>Which means most of the standard tuning really doesn't apply.</P><P>Hopefully someone from R&amp;D can chime in on troubleshooting this since I'm less familiar with those steps.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 04:43:58 GMT PhoneBoy 2017-10-03T04:43:58Z Clustering in Azure https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6951#M4213 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello</P><P></P><P>are there any recommendations how ClusterXL settings should be modified, when it is used in Azure environment?&nbsp;(modifying delays or some timeout values)</P><P>I'm curious, because i've noticed couple of times that fail over happen, but without any sign of link down/up state or VM reboot/shutdown.</P><P></P><P>#vsec #azure</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 06:41:37 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6951#M4213 Martin_Valenta 2017-10-02T06:41:37Z Re: Clustering in Azure https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6952#M4214 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>ClusterXL in general works differently in Azure.</P><P>Specifically:&nbsp;</P><UL><LI>Sync happens over unicast (due to the fact Azure doesn't support Multicast or Broadcast)</LI><LI>Monitoring and failover happens using API calls to Azure</LI></UL><P>Which means most of the standard tuning really doesn't apply.</P><P>Hopefully someone from R&amp;D can chime in on troubleshooting this since I'm less familiar with those steps.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 04:43:58 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6952#M4214 PhoneBoy 2017-10-03T04:43:58Z Re: Clustering in Azure https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6953#M4215 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In <A href="http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk110194">sk110194</A> Check Point provides an <SPAN class="">Example Environment</SPAN> that details on failover dependencies regarding to the cluster resources used, times, Azure API calls, reconfigurations made and more. Maybe this sk is of help for you.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:32:19 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6953#M4215 Danny 2017-10-04T00:32:19Z Re: Clustering in Azure https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6954#M4216 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;solutionid=sk97827&amp;partition=Advanced&amp;product=ClusterXL%22#Introduction" title="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;solutionid=sk97827&amp;partition=Advanced&amp;product=ClusterXL%22#Introduction">How to change ClusterXL Interface Monitoring Timeouts</A>&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 07:03:54 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Cloud-Firewall/Clustering-in-Azure/m-p/6954#M4216 Martin_Valenta 2017-10-04T07:03:54Z