Cisco ASA 5520 Failover with DMZ

I have a pair of Cisco ASA 5520s running as a primary/standby. Everything is working properly with the primary ASA, however when I trigger a failover, everything works except for the DMZ interface on the standby ASA. I've poured over the configs, but perhaps I have been staring at them too long because I am just not seeing anything.
Below is the output of the sh run failover, sh failover, and sh run interface commands for each unit...
PRIMARY ASA
Primary-ASA# sh run failover
failover
failover lan unit primary
failover lan interface stateful1 GigabitEthernet0/3
failover key *****
failover link stateful1 GigabitEthernet0/3
failover interface ip stateful1 192.168.216.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.216.2
Primary-ASA# sh failover
Failover On
Failover unit Primary
Failover LAN Interface: stateful1 GigabitEthernet0/3 (up)
Unit Poll frequency 1 seconds, holdtime 15 seconds
Interface Poll frequency 5 seconds, holdtime 25 seconds
Interface Policy 1
Monitored Interfaces 3 of 160 maximum
Version: Ours 8.2(5), Mate 8.2(5)
Last Failover at: 20:39:23 CDT Sep 3 2013
This host: Primary - Active
Active time: 69648 (sec)
slot 0: ASA5520 hw/sw rev (2.0/8.2(5)) status (Up Sys)
     Interface outside (184.61.38.254): Normal
     Interface inside (192.168.218.252): Normal
     Interface dmz (192.168.215.254): Normal (Waiting)
     Interface management (192.168.1.1): Normal (Not-Monitored)
slot 1: ASA-SSM-10 hw/sw rev (1.0/6.0(3)E1) status (Up/Up)
     IPS, 6.0(3)E1, Up
Other host: Secondary - Standby Ready
Active time: 2119 (sec)
slot 0: ASA5520 hw/sw rev (2.0/8.2(5)) status (Up Sys)
Interface outside (184.61.38.253): Normal
Interface inside (192.168.218.253): Normal
Interface dmz (192.168.215.252): Normal (Waiting)
Interface management (192.168.1.2): Normal (Not-Monitored)
slot 1: ASA-SSM-10 hw/sw rev (1.0/6.0(3)E1) status (Up/Up)
IPS, 6.0(3)E1, Up
Primary-ASA# sh run interface
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
nameif outside
security-level 0
ip address 184.61.38.254 255.255.255.128 standby 184.61.38.253
ospf cost 10
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
nameif inside
security-level 100
ip address 192.168.218.252 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.218.253
ospf cost 10
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
nameif dmz
security-level 50
ip address 192.168.215.254 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.215.252
ospf cost 10
interface GigabitEthernet0/3
description LAN/STATE Failover Interface
interface Management0/0
nameif management
security-level 100
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.1.2
ospf cost 10
management-only
STANDBY ASA
Standby-ASA# sh run failover
failover
failover lan unit secondary
failover lan interface stateful1 GigabitEthernet0/3
failover key *****
failover link stateful1 GigabitEthernet0/3
failover interface ip stateful1 192.168.216.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.216.2
Standby-ASA# sh failover
Failover On
Failover unit Secondary
Failover LAN Interface: stateful1 GigabitEthernet0/3 (up)
Unit Poll frequency 1 seconds, holdtime 15 seconds
Interface Poll frequency 5 seconds, holdtime 25 seconds
Interface Policy 1
Monitored Interfaces 3 of 160 maximum
Version: Ours 8.2(5), Mate 8.2(5)
Last Failover at: 20:39:23 CDT Sep 3 2013
This host: Secondary - Standby Ready
Active time: 2119 (sec)
slot 0: ASA5520 hw/sw rev (2.0/8.2(5)) status (Up Sys)
Interface outside (184.61.38.253): Normal
Interface inside (192.168.218.253): Normal
Interface dmz (192.168.215.252): Normal (Waiting)
Interface management (192.168.1.2): Normal (Not-Monitored)
slot 1: ASA-SSM-10 hw/sw rev (1.0/6.0(3)E1) status (Up/Up)
     IPS, 6.0(3)E1, Up
Other host: Primary - Active
Active time: 70110 (sec)
      slot 0: ASA5520 hw/sw rev (2.0/8.2(5)) status (Up Sys)
Interface outside (184.61.38.254): Normal
Interface inside (192.168.218.252): Normal
Interface dmz (192.168.215.254): Normal (Waiting)
Interface management (192.168.1.1): Normal (Not-Monitored)
slot 1: ASA-SSM-10 hw/sw rev (1.0/6.0(3)E1) status (Up/Up)
     IPS, 6.0(3)E1, Up
Standby-ASA# sh run interface
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
nameif outside
security-level 0
ip address 184.61.38.254 255.255.255.128 standby 184.61.38.253
ospf cost 10
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
nameif inside
security-level 100
ip address 192.168.218.252 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.218.253
ospf cost 10
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
nameif dmz
security-level 50
ip address 192.168.215.254 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.215.252
ospf cost 10
interface GigabitEthernet0/3
description LAN/STATE Failover Interface
interface Management0/0
nameif management
security-level 100
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.1.2
ospf cost 10
management-only
Does anyone see something I might be missing? I am at a loss...

I'll just answer my own question...the configs are correct, but it the interface on the standby ASA was plugged into an improperly configured switchport. That'll do it everytime.

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output-line-status: up
Action: drop
Drop-reason: (acl-drop) Flow is denied by configured rule
I seemed that I had a nonat rule messing the communication between these interfaces. After removing it, the traffic was flowing just fine.
Thanks for your support.
Ron

Cisco ASA 5520 Failover with DMZ

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