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Management set to wrong appliance version

Adam276 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:55:30 GMT

I am looking at an already setup system where the appliances in a cluster were upgraded from 5000 series to 6400 appliances. The appliance version was never changed on the cluster object to the new appliance version. What are the ramifications of that? The gateway cluster appears to be functioning just fine for the past 7 or 8 months with the old appliance version.

Re: Management set to wrong appliance version

the_rock — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:09:04 GMT

You are 100% fine. I actually worked with customer who told me they had that on a cluster...as in open server and appliances had been hardware for 10 years. I would not even worry about it for a second, nothing will happen, just leave it as is. If anything, its purely "cosmetic" thing.

Andy

Re: Management set to wrong appliance version

Adam276 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:28:01 GMT

Thanks for info on your experience with that condition. Maybe for appliances it is there for reference only... or if there is a major appliance difference (small office appliance vs the biggest datacenter model) maybe it could matter?

Re: Management set to wrong appliance version

_Val_ — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:36:31 GMT

SMB vs Enterprise model number is relevant for policy compilation. One or another enterprise model, it does not really matter much most of the time.

Re: Management set to wrong appliance version

the_rock — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:02:14 GMT

Val is 100% right, just make sure if you have any SMBs that model is right, for anything else, I would not worry. I mean, its fine to have right hardware model, but even if you dont, it will never cause any problems.

Andy