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Administration Guide

Configuration synchronization

Configuration synchronization

Configuration synchronization provides redundancy and load balancing among the cluster units. A FortiAnalyzer HA cluster synchronizes the configuration of the following modules to all cluster units:

  • Device Manager
  • Incidents & Events
  • Reports
  • Most System Settings

FortiAnalyzer HA synchronizes most System Settings in the HA cluster. The following table shows which System Setting configurations are synchronized:

System Setting

Configuration synchronized

Dashboard > System Information

Only Administrative Domain is synchronized. All other settings in the System Information widget are not synchronized.

All ADOMs

Yes

Storage Info

Yes

Network

No

HA

No

Admin

Yes

Certificates > Local Certificates

No

Certificates > CA Certificates

Yes

Certificates > CRL

Yes

Log Forwarding

Yes

Fetcher Management

Yes

Event Log

No

Task Monitor

Yes

Advanced > SNMP

Yes

Advanced > Mail Server

Yes

Advanced > Syslog Server

Yes

Advanced > Meta Fields

Yes

Advanced > Device Log Settings

Yes

Advanced > File Management

Yes

Advanced > Advanced Settings

Yes

Configuration synchronization

Configuration synchronization

Configuration synchronization provides redundancy and load balancing among the cluster units. A FortiAnalyzer HA cluster synchronizes the configuration of the following modules to all cluster units:

  • Device Manager
  • Incidents & Events
  • Reports
  • Most System Settings

FortiAnalyzer HA synchronizes most System Settings in the HA cluster. The following table shows which System Setting configurations are synchronized:

System Setting

Configuration synchronized

Dashboard > System Information

Only Administrative Domain is synchronized. All other settings in the System Information widget are not synchronized.

All ADOMs

Yes

Storage Info

Yes

Network

No

HA

No

Admin

Yes

Certificates > Local Certificates

No

Certificates > CA Certificates

Yes

Certificates > CRL

Yes

Log Forwarding

Yes

Fetcher Management

Yes

Event Log

No

Task Monitor

Yes

Advanced > SNMP

Yes

Advanced > Mail Server

Yes

Advanced > Syslog Server

Yes

Advanced > Meta Fields

Yes

Advanced > Device Log Settings

Yes

Advanced > File Management

Yes

Advanced > Advanced Settings

Yes