FortiGate HA out of sync troubleshooting

Published: 05 January 2023
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Troubleshooting HA Cluster out of syn.

How to access secondary unit of HA cluster via CLI

Syntax
execute ha manage [ID] [username]

exec ha manage ?

Command
exec ha manage 1 admin


Check HA Cluster out of sync Status
#get sys ha status


To Compare Checksum between 2 HA Cluster

diag sys ha checksum cluster


Recalculate the Checksum

diag sys ha checksum recalculate

Note: Recalculating the Checksum on both HA units will fix the out-of-syn issue

Optional

FortiGate HA Troubleshooting

Run the following commands to check the mismatch right away:

diag debug config-error-log read -- (1)
diag hardware device disk -- (2)
show sys storage -- (3)
show wanopt storage -- (4)

(1): Check the output to identify issues with configuration lines that were not accepted. Try to manually configure the device configuration item listed.
(2): Check the device disk on both devices as the size and availability should match.
(3): Check the size of storage disk as it should match on both device.
(4): Check the size of wanopt disk as size should match.




To determine why HA synchronization does not occur

1. Connect to each cluster unit CLI by connected to the console port.

2. Enter the following commands to enable debugging and display HA out of sync messages.

#diagnose debug enable

#diagnose debug console timestamp enable

#diagnose debug application hatalk -1

#diagnose debug application hasync -1

Collect the console output and compare the out of sync messages

3. Enter the following commands to turn off debugging.

diagnose debug disable

diagnose debug reset


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