[c-nsp] Any gotchas in upgrading ASA5520 pairs?

[Tony Varriale]

I would recommend forcing the failover from the CLI.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan West" <rwest at zyedge.com>
To: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados at comcast.net>; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Any gotchas in upgrading ASA5520 pairs?


> Scott,
>
> I'm sure other people follow different methods, but I haven't run into any 
> issues loading the code on both devices, rebooting the primary causing an 
> immediate failover, waiting for the config sync messages on the new 
> primary.  Once I see all interfaces as normal, I reload the primary and 
> make sure the config sync messages show up again and verify all is well.
>
> -ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Scott Granados
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 12:26 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Any gotchas in upgrading ASA5520 pairs?
>
> Hi,
>    I have two ASA 5520 devices in a active standby pair.  I'm presently at
> firmware 7.0.7 and ASDM 5.0 and want to upgrade to 7.2.4-33.  I've googled
> and found some detailed instructions and the process seems simple and
> standard, upload the image, change the boot vars, save and restart.  Is 
> this
> correct?  Would the following work?
> First, upgrade the standby, restart, once back up fail over to standby so
> the primary becomes standby and repeat?  Are there any issues with
> mismatched images that I will need to be concerned with while the two
> devices are in transition?  How about any gotchas from the upgrade of 
> 7.0.7
> to 7.2.4 itself anything I need to know?  I didn't see any alerts in the
> directions but figured I should check here.  Any pointers would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you
> Scott
>
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