Multiple context mode and Active Active

Question

Hi Everyone,
ASA in multiple context  mode works as active active mode.
ASA has 2 contexts admin and  x.
We have 2  physical ASA say ASA1 and ASA2 .
Under system context we have hostname ASA
When i ssh to ASA1 it brings the ASA/admin mode.
sh failover shows
sh failover shows
This host:    Primary
This host:    Primary
When i try to login to ASA 2 it brings me to ASA/x prompt.
sh failover shows
  This context: Active
Peer context: Standby Ready
Need to  know is there any way that i can login to other physical ASA?
i hope my question makes sense.
Message was edited by: mahesh parmar

Answer 1

Hi Mahesh,
To it seems that you are logging to different contexts in these 2 cases.
Normally an admin always logs to the "admin" context IP address owned either by the primary IP address for the Active unit or the secondary IP address for the Standby unit.
So what I would suggest you do first is that you go to the context "admin" and issue the command "show run interface"
Then go to the context "x" and issue the command "show run interface"
Now check the IP addresses on the interfaces.
Especially the interface on the "admin" context should contain an IP address for both of the ASA units. Check the interface IP address which originally lead you to the "admin" context.
For example
ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0 standby 10.10.10.2
If the above were true you would connecto the IP address 10.10.10.1 when you wanted to connect to the Active unit and use the IP address 10.10.10.2 when you wanted to connect to the current Standby unit
- Jouni