ASA Active/Standby mode and Hello messages

Hi Everyone,
On ASA Active/Standby mode i know thatsay inside or any other interface of active and standby ASA should connect to same switch and vlan.
When we assign say ip address to inside interface of both ASA like
ip address 192.168.x.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.x.2 255.255.255.0
Need to know if these inside interface talk to each other or not?
Do they send hello messages?
Thanks
MAhesh

Hi Mahesh,
The ASA Active/Standby Failover pair uses both the dedicated Failover interface and the actual Data interfaces to monitor the "health" of the Failover pair.
The units send Failover hello messages and wait for a reply to determine if the other unit is alive or not.
By default all Physical interfaces are automatically monitored. To my understanding Logical interfaces such as Trunk interfaces are NOT monitored by default. You will have to configure monitoring for each subinterface of the Trunk that you want to be monitored.
You would use the command
monitor-interface
Check the Command Reference section for this
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa84/command/reference/m.html#wp2123112
I would also suggest reading the following section of the Configuration Guide
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa84/configuration/guide/ha_overview.html#wp1079010
It has information of the Unit and Interface health monitoring of the Failover pair.
If you want to debug Failover activity you could use the command
debug fover
It has multiple additional parameter after that command
Here is the Command Reference section for the debug command
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa84/command/reference/d1.html#wp2093011
You can even attach a computer on the switch between the ASAs and capture the packets between them an you can see the Failover messages etc from the ASAs
- Jouni

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VPN IKEv2 SA 0 0 0 0
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VPN CTCP upd 0 0 0 0
VPN SDI upd 0 0 0 0
VPN DHCP upd 0 0 0 0
SIP Session 0 0 0 0
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: Saved
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