R3166-R3206-HP High-End Firewalls High Availability Configuration Guide-6PW101

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Displaying the status of a collaboration group and its member
ports
To check the status of a collaboration group, select High Reliability > Collaboration Group from the
navigation tree to enter the page for displaying collaboration groups, as shown in Figure 21. T
o display
the status of a collaboration group’s member ports, click the icon corresponding to the collaboration
group to enter the page for configuring the collaboration group, as shown in Figure 22.
Table 9 Description of
the status of collaboration groups and their member ports
Title Descri
p
tion
Collaboration Group
Status
• Initial: The collaboration group does not have any member port.
• Up: All member ports of the collaboration group are up.
• Down: One port in the collaboration group is physically down, other ports are
administratively down.
• Ambiguous: The status of the collaboration group is not stable. You cannot decide
the status of the collaboration group until a 10-second timer expires.
Interface Status
• Up: The port is physically up.
• Down: The port is physically down.
• Linkgroup-down: The port is administratively down.
Return to Collaboration group configuration task list.
Collaboration group configuration example
Network requirements
As shown in Figure 20, LAN users Host A, Host B, and Host C access the Internet through Firewall B.
Firewall C serves as a backup for Firewall B. Configure on Firewall B so that when the link connecting
Router A and Firewall B goes down, the traffic rapidly switches from Firewall B to Firewall C.
Configuration procedure
# Assign GigabitEthernet 0/0 and GigabitEthernet 0/1 to Collaboration Group 1.
• Select High Reliability > Collaboration Group from the navigation tree of Firewall B, and click the
icon corresponding to Collaboration Group 1.
• Select the check boxes in front of GigabitEthernet 0/0 and GigabitEthernet 0/1.
• Click Apply to confirm the operation.
Verifying the configuration
• Unplug the cable connecting Router A to GigabitEthernet 0/0 on Firewall B.
• Select High Reliability > Collaboration Group from the navigation tree of Firewall B, and check the
status of Collaboration Group 1. The status of Collaboration Group 1 is Down.
• Click the icon corresponding to Collaboration Group 1 and check the status of its member ports.
The status of GigabitEthernet 0/0 is Down, and that of GigabitEthernet 0/1 is Linkgroup-down.