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An engineer is monitoring an active/active high availability (HA) firewall pair. Which HA firewall state describes the firewall that is experiencing a failure of a monitored path?

The correct answer is D. Tentative. https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-admin/high-availability/ha-firewall-states State of a firewall (in an active/active configuration) caused by one of the following: Failure of a firewall. Failure of a monitored object (a link or path). The firewall leaves…

Submitted by mike_84· Apr 18, 2026Operate

Question

An engineer is monitoring an active/active high availability (HA) firewall pair. Which HA firewall state describes the firewall that is experiencing a failure of a monitored path?

Options

  • AInitial
  • BPassive
  • CActive-secondary
  • DTentative

How the community answered

(34 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    88% (30)

Explanation

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-admin/high-availability/ha-firewall-states State of a firewall (in an active/active configuration) caused by one of the following: Failure of a firewall. Failure of a monitored object (a link or path). The firewall leaves suspended or non-functional state.

Topics

#HA Firewall#Firewall States#Path Monitoring#Active/Active

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