High Availability
Configuration Guide
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Guide Sets
Guide Describes
User Guide
Console Guide Console Management
Windows Client Guide Installation & configuration of Cyberoam Windows Client
Linux Client Guide Installation & configuration of Cyberoam Linux Client
HTTP Client Guide Installation & configuration of Cyberoam HTTP Client
Analytical Tool Guide Using the Analytical tool for diagnosing and troubleshooting common problems
LDAP Integration Guide Configuration for integrating LDAP with Cyberoam for external authentication
ADS Integration Guide Configuration for integrating ADS with Cyberoam for external authentication
PDC Integration Guide Configuration for integrating PDC with Cyberoam for external authentication
RADIUS Integration Guide Configuration for integrating RADIUS with Cyberoam for external authentication
High Availability Configuration Guide
Configuration of High Availability (HA)
Multi Link Manager User Guide Configuration of Multiple Gateways, load balancing and failover
VPN Management Implementing and managing VPN Cyberoam IDP Implementation
Guide
Configuring, implementing and managing Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Cyberoam Anti Virus Implementation Guide
Configuring and implementing anti virus solution Cyberoam Anti Spam
Implementation Guide
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Technical Support
You may direct all questions, comments, or requests concerning the software you purchased, your registration status, or similar issues to Customer care/service department at the following address: Corporate Office eLitecore Technologies Ltd. 904, Silicon Tower Off C.G. Road Ahmedabad 380015 Gujarat, India. Phone: +91-79-66065606 Fax: +91-79-26407640 Web site: www.elitecore.com
Cyberoam contact:
Technical support (Corporate Office): +91-79-26400707 Email: [email protected]
Web site: www.cyberoam.com
Typographic Conventions
Material in this manual is presented in text, screen displays, or command-line notation.
Item Convention Example
Server Machine where Cyberoam Software - Server component is installed
Client Machine where Cyberoam Software - Client component is installed
User The end user
Username Username uniquely identifies the user of the system Part titles Bold and
shaded font
typefaces
Report
Topic titles Shaded font typefaces
Introduction
Subtitles Bold & Black
typefaces
Notation conventions
Navigation link Bold typeface Group Management → Groups → Create
it means, to open the required page click on Group management then on Groups and finally click Create tab Name of a particular parameter / field / command button text Lowercase italic type
Enter policy name, replace policy name with the specific name of a policy
Or
Click Name to select where Name denotes command button text which is to be clicked
Cross references
Hyperlink in different color
refer to Customizing User database Clicking on the link will open the particular topic
Notes & points to remember
Bold typeface between the black borders
Note
Prerequisites Bold typefaces between the black borders
6 Contents
Overview 7
Cyberoam HA terminology 8 How Cluster works 10
Before configuring HA 10 Configure Primary appliance 11 Miscellaneous Settings 12 Disable HA 13
Switch Appliance to Standby mode 14
Disable Auto Synchronization 15 Manual Synchronization 16
Overview
Welcome to Cyberoam’s – HA Configuration Guide.
Cyberoam is an Identity-based UTM Appliance. Cyberoam’s solution is purpose-built to meet the security needs of corporates, government organizations, and educational institutions.
Cyberoam’s perfect blend of best-of-breed solutions includes user based Firewall, Content filtering, Anti Virus, Anti Spam, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP), and VPN.
Cyberoam provides increased LAN security by providing separate port for connecting to the publicly accessible servers like Web server, Mail server, FTP server etc. hosted in DMZ which are visible the external world and still have firewall protection.
Hardware failure such as a failure of the power supply, hard disk, or processor is the main reason behind the failure of Internet security system and/or a firewall. To provide reliable and continuous connection to the Internet and also to provide security services such as firewall, VPN, Intrusion detection and prevention, virus scanning, web filtering, and spam filtering services, Cyberoam allows configuring two appliances to function as a single Cyberoam Appliance and provide high availability.
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Cyberoam HA terminology
1. Primary Appliance
Cyberoam appliance configured in the HA cluster to process network traffic. Under normal operating conditions, it operates in an ACTIVE mode.
2. Secondary Appliance
Cyberoam appliance which does not process the network traffic but is configured in the HA cluster. Under normal operating conditions, it operates in ACTIVE-STANDBY mode. Only the failed SSH connections from Secondary appliance are logged.
3. Cluster IP
Cluster IP address is configured on both the HA appliances, but only the appliance which is ACTIVE owns the address and is used for routing network traffic. All external clients’ use this address to communicate with the ACTIVE appliance.
4. Heartbeat
Communication between the cluster appliances is called Heartbeat. Through heartbeat, cluster appliances constantly communicating HA status information to make sure that the cluster is operating properly. Heartbeat is exchanged every 2 seconds.
5. Dedicated HA Link Port
Cluster appliances use dedicated Ethernet interface to communicate cluster information and to synchronize with each other. This dedicated Ethernet interface is called Dedicated HA Link port. Dedicated HA link port should be from any of the LAN zone interface only.
6. Synchronization
The process of sharing the cluster configuration, routing table and individual cluster appliance status between Cluster appliances (HA peers). Reports generated by Cyberoam are not synchronized.
7. LAN IP Address(s) for Ping Test
To periodically determine the health of the network, you can specify the IP address which is in the same subnet of LAN, to send ICMP echo request packets and wait for replies. If the appliance does not receive reply within the predefined period, then it is considered that there is no connectivity with the LAN and the primary appliance is taken over by the secondary appliance.
8. Device Failover
9. Appliance states
Active
Appliance in Active mode processes the network traffic while peer appliance runs in a Active-Standby mode. The Active appliance owns the Cluster IP address. Peer appliances automatically synchronize with each other every 2 hours if Auto Synchronization is enabled.
The peer appliance takes over Active appliance in case of device failure.
Active-Standby
Appliance in Active-Standby mode does not process network traffic but temporarily takes over peer appliance in case peer appliance fails. Active-Standby appliance takes over the Active appliance, if the heartbeat is not received from the Active appliance within the predetermined period.
Standby
Appliance in the standby mode is the non-operational appliance in the cluster and the peer appliance becomes ACTIVE to processes network traffic. If the Active appliance fails, standby appliance cannot take over.
Not Available
Appliance is not available for takeover incase peer appliance fails.
10. HA Mode
HA Mode (Displayed on the Primary appliance)
• Not Configured – Appliance is not configured for HA • Active, Secondary as Active Standby
• Active, Secondary not Available • Standby
HA Mode (Displayed as on the Secondary appliance)
• Not Configured – Appliance is not configured for HA • Active-Standby
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How Cluster works
Cyberoam offers active-passive high availability (HA) by using cluster IP address shared between a primary appliance and a secondary appliance linked together as a “cluster”.
The two appliances - primary and secondary, connect over a dedicated HA interface link.
Primary appliance is in ‘Active’ mode and routes the complete network traffic while secondary appliance waits in an Active-Standby mode ready to operate as the primary appliance, in case primary appliance fails.
Secondary appliance monitors the primary appliance through HA link. Primary appliance regularly sends the Heartbeat requests through this link, which is answered by secondary appliance. If no heartbeat is received from the primary appliance, the device is considered to have failed. In this case, secondary appliance takes ownership of the virtual IP address from primary appliance, and becomes primary appliance temporarily. Primary appliance automatically takes over from the Secondary appliance once it starts functioning.
Before configuring HA
Before attempting to configure two Cyberoam appliances as a HA pair for Hardware Failover, check the following requirements:
• Both appliances in the HA pair i.e. primary and secondary appliances must be same hardware model
• Both appliances in the HA pair must have the same version installed.
• You must have separate licenses for primary and secondary appliances. On both the appliances same subscription modules should be enabled else these modules will not be supported in the event of a failure of the Primary appliance. For example, if IDP module is enabled at Primary appliance and not enabled on Secondary appliance then on failover when Secondary appliance becomes Active, IDP policies will not be applicable.
• HA requires three unique LAN IP addresses to operate – a virtual gateway IP address, unique LAN IP address for the Primary appliance, and unique LAN IP address for the Secondary appliance.
• Dedicated HA link port should be from the LAN zone interface only and should have unique IP address on both the appliances.
• The Primary and secondary appliance are currently only capable of performing active-passive HA.
• Session state is not currently synchronized between the Primary and secondary appliances. If a failover occurs, any session that had been active at the time of failover needs to be
renegotiated.
Configure Primary appliance
Note
1. Configure Secondary appliance and define LAN and Heartbeat Interface IP address before physically connecting both the appliances.
2. Create Firewall rule on primary as well as secondary appliance with the following parameters: • Source: LAN/Any Host
• Destination: LOCAL/Dedicated HA link port • Service: HA Service
• Action: Accept
3. Create 3 DoS Bypass rule on primary as well as secondary appliance with the following parameters:
DoS Bypass rule Parameters
Rule 1 Source IP: IP address defined as Cluster IP Source Port: *
Destination IP: * Destination Port: *
Network Protocol: All Protocol
Rule 2 Source IP: IP address defined as Peer IP address Source Port: *
Destination IP: * Destination Port: *
Network Protocol: All Protocol
Rule 3 Source IP: IP address defined as LAN IP Address(s) for Ping Test
Source Port: * Destination IP: * Destination Port: * Network Protocol: ICMP
Steps
1. Connect Heartbeat interface on the Primary and Secondary appliance with a cross cable 2. Specify any of the LAN ports as a Cluster Port
3. Specify Cluster IP. Cluster IP address must be on the same subnet of LAN
4. Specify any of the LAN ports as Dedicated HA link Port. Dedicated HA link port cannot be same as Cluster port.
5. Specify Peer IP Address i.e. IP Address of Secondary appliance 6. Specify LAN IP address(s) for Ping Test
7. Click Configure HA & Sync with Secondary
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Screen - Primary appliance after configuring HA
Screen - Secondary appliance after configuring HA
Miscellaneous Settings
Note
Mail server configuration in HA settings will change automatically if mail server setting is changed from the Network Configuration Wizard and vice versa.
Disable HA
HA can be disabled from HA configuration page from either of the Appliances.
If HA is disabled from primary appliance, run Network Configuration wizard from both the appliances as all the ports except LAN and Cluster Interfaces will be down.
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Switch Appliance to Standby mode
Either of the appliances can be changed to standby mode. The appliance which is switched to standby mode is the non-operational appliance in the cluster and the peer appliance becomes ACTIVE appliance to process network traffic. If the Active appliance fails, standby appliance cannot take over.
Disable Auto Synchronization
16 • Auto Synchronization can be disabled from the Secondary appliance only
• If Auto Synchronization is disabled, Secondary appliance will have to be synchronized manually.
• If Auto Synchronization is disabled, Primary appliance can also be synchronized with secondary appliance.
Manual Synchronization
Manual synchronization can be done from Secondary appliance only provided Auto Synchronization is disabled.
Manual synchronization gets data updates except the reports from the primary appliance i.e. no reports will be synchronized. HA settings page displays the synchronization details like synchronization attempts, date and time of attempts.
Synchronize Primary appliance with Secondary
appliance
In normal conditions, Secondary appliance is synchronized with the Primary appliance. But if need arises Primary appliance can also be forcefully synchronized with the Secondary appliance.
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Monitor HA health
You can monitor HA health using Diagnostic Tool.
HA service
Status Description
OK HA services is functioning properly Critical HA services is not functioning
HA communication
Status Description
OK Heartbeat is communicated
