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What is the best description of the HA4 Keep-Alive Threshold (ms)?

The correct answer is C. the timeframe within which the firewall must receive keepalives from a cluster member to know. The HA4 link is used in Active/Active HA deployments for session synchronization between the two cluster members. The HA4 Keep-Alive Threshold defines the timeframe within which the local firewall must receive keepalive packets from the peer cluster member over the HA4 link. If k

Submitted by kev92· Apr 18, 2026Deploy and Configure

Question

What is the best description of the HA4 Keep-Alive Threshold (ms)?

Options

  • Athe maximum interval between hello packets that are sent to verify that the HA functionality on the
  • BThe time that a passive or active-secondary firewall will wait before taking over as the active or
  • Cthe timeframe within which the firewall must receive keepalives from a cluster member to know
  • DThe timeframe that the local firewall wait before going to Active state when another cluster

How the community answered

(26 responses)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    85% (22)
  • D
    12% (3)

Explanation

The HA4 link is used in Active/Active HA deployments for session synchronization between the two cluster members. The HA4 Keep-Alive Threshold defines the timeframe within which the local firewall must receive keepalive packets from the peer cluster member over the HA4 link. If keepalives are not received within this threshold, the firewall concludes that the peer is no longer reachable via HA4, which can trigger failover actions. Option A describes the Hello Interval. Option B describes the Preemption Hold Time or Promotion Hold Time. Option D describes the Monitor Fail Hold Up Time or a related timer. The HA4 Keep-Alive Threshold is specifically about session-sync link health monitoring between cluster peers.

Topics

#High Availability#HA Keep-Alive#Firewall Clustering#HA Parameters

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