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Wolfgang
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clusterXL_monitor_ips Script

Is it supported to run "clusterXL_monitor_ips Script" with Maestro ?

Following The clusterXL_monitor_ips Script (checkpoint.com) and How to configure $FWDIR/bin/clusterXL_monitor_ips script to run automatically on Gaia / SecurePlatfo... we want to monitor some external IP addresses and initialize a failover. We want todo this in a Maestro Dual-Site environment and VSX, one of the VS should be failover to the standby site if one of the monitored IPs does not answer.

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Dario_Perez
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I dont' think that is supported, this feature is for HA cluster and maestro A/A cluster. anyway if you have this configuration would mark a mismatch on db config. 

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Wolfgang
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@Dario_Perez we want this for a Dual-Site Maestro and failover only between sites not for local site.

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Dario_Perez
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Right, but if for example, you have 3 SGM per site. you have to edit 3 files on each site, therefore this might be a database inconsistence. 

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emmap
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The SK article states that it does not apply to VSX and/or Scalable Platforms, which includes Maestro, so I'd suggest it's not supported. Whether that's just because it's not QA'd or if it actually doesn't work I don't know. Likely each SGM would be monitoring an triggering the pnote independently, and causing weirdness with where the pings go with correction layers etc. 

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Wolfgang
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  • This article does not apply to VRRP clusters or Scalable Platforms.
  • This article applies to VSX clusters as well.

@emmap my understanding of the sk VSX yes, but scalable platform not.

Any other way to probe a host different from the gateway address and behind the gateway not in the local attached subnet of an interface ? We found a limitation in an environment….. we can loose WAN connectivity but the interface and gateway address will be available in this case. That‘s why we want to monitor something behind the gateway and trigger a failover.

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Dario_Perez
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Not sure if we have other way to do that, but IP host monitoring is the best approach, that is an admin down or the Gateway if you lose the connectivity on site two and want to recover site 1, that would be a full outage, since the other side need an admin up As Far I remember. dynamic routing might help here 

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emmap
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Yes my apologies, I was tired and the site wasn't working properly when I wrote that. So yea, VSX yes SP no. 

Is there something you can do on the upstream device to shut the interface to site 1 when WAN goes down?

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