Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Configuration Manual page 299

Chapter 15 Using Failover
Table 15-2 Show Failover Display Description (continued)
Field
Primary or Secondary
Active time:
[context_name] Interface
name (n.n.n.n):
Stateful Failover Logical
Update Statistics
Link
Stateful Obj
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n (sec)
The amount of time the module has been in the active state. This time
is cumulative, so the standby module, if it was active in the past, will
also show a value.
For each interface, the display shows the IP address currently being
used on each module, as well as one of the following conditions:
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In multiple context mode, the context name appears before each
interface.
The following fields relate to the stateful failover feature. If the Link
field shows an interface name, the stateful failover statistics are shown.
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For each field type, the following statistics are used:
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General Sum of all stateful objects.
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Active—The module is in active mode.
Standby—The module is in standby mode,
Disabled—The module has failover disabled, or the failover link is
not configured.
Listen—The module is attempting to discover an active module by
listening for polling messages.
Learn—The module detected an active module, and is not
synchronizing the configuration before going to standby mode.
Failed—The module is failed.
Failed—The interface has failed.
Link Down—The interface line protocol is down.
Normal—The interface is working correctly.
No Link—The interface has been administratively shut down.
Unknown—The FWSM cannot determine the status of the
interface.
(Waiting)—The interface has not yet received any polling
messages from the other module.
(Autostate Down)—The interface is marked as autostate down.
Testing—The interface is being tested.
interface_name—The interface used for the stateful failover link.
Unconfigured—You are not using stateful failover.
xmit—Number of transmitted packets to the other module.
xerr—Number of errors that occurred while transmitting packets to
the other module.
rcv—Number of received packets.
rerr—Number of errors that occurred while receiving packets from
the other module.
Verifying the Failover Configuration
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