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HA License Configuration Overview
You can configure HA license synchronization by associating
two SonicWALL security appliances as HA Primary and HA
Secondary on mysonicwall.com. Note that the Backup
appliance of your HA pair is referred to as the HA Secondary
unit on mysonicwall.com.
You must purchase a single set of security services licenses for
the HA Primary appliance. To use Stateful HA, you must first
activate the Stateful High Availability Upgrade license for the
primary unit in SonicOS. This is automatic if your appliance is
connected to the Internet. See
Your Appliance on mysonicwall.com
License synchronization is used during HA so that the Backup
appliance can maintain the same level of network protection
provided before the failover. To enable HA, you can use the
SonicOS UI to configure your two appliances as a HA pair in
Active/Idle mode.
Mysonicwall.com provides several methods of associating the
two appliances. You can start by registering a new appliance,
and then choosing an already-registered unit to associate it
with. You can associate two units that are both already
registered. Or, you can select a registered unit and then add a
new appliance with which to associate it.
Note:
After registering new SonicWALL appliances on
mysonicwall.com, you must also register each
appliance from the SonicOS management interface by
clicking the registration link on the System > Status
page. This allows each unit to synchronize with the
SonicWALL license server and share licenses with the
associated appliance.
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