High Availability

The following sections provide instructions on configuring High Availability (HA):

• Introduction to the FGCP cluster
• Failover protection
• HA heartbeat interface
• FGSP (session synchronization) peer setup
• Synchronizing sessions between FGCP clusters
• Firmware upgrades in FGSP
• Using standalone configuration synchronization
• Troubleshoot an HA formation
• Check HA sync status
• Disabling stateful SCTP inspection
• Upgrading FortiGates in an HA cluster
• HA cluster setup examples
• Out-of-band management with reserved management interfaces
• In-band management