A network administrator is setting up a new highly available Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) pair. The administrator wants to monitor that the interfaces on the secondary Secure FTD are rea

The correct answer is B. secondary IP address. Although recommended, the standby address is not required. Without a standby IP address, the active unit cannot perform network tests to check the standby interface health; it can only track the link state. You also cannot connect to the standby unit on that interface for managem

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Question

A network administrator is setting up a new highly available Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) pair. The administrator wants to monitor that the interfaces on the secondary Secure FTD are reachable not just up. What must the administrator configure?

Options

AThis happens by default when high availability is enabled.
Bsecondary IP address
CEUI 64 address on a high-availability link
Dseparate high-availability and failover links

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A
4% (1)
B
71% (20)
C
7% (2)
D
18% (5)

Explanation

Although recommended, the standby address is not required. Without a standby IP address, the active unit cannot perform network tests to check the standby interface health; it can only track the link state. You also cannot connect to the standby unit on that interface for management guide-v61/firepower_threat_defense_high_availability.html

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#FTD High Availability#Interface Configuration#Reachability Monitoring#Secondary IP Address

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