Fortinet FortiVoice - Using High Availability; About High Availability

Fortinet Technologies Inc. Page 53 FortiVoice Enterprise Phone System 4.0.0 Administration Guide
4. In the Configure the privileges table, for each access control option, select the permissions
to be granted to administrator accounts associated with this access profile:
• None
• Read Only
• Read-Write
5. Click Create.
Using high availability
Go to System > High Availability to configure the FortiVoice unit to act as a high availability (HA)
member in order to increase availability.
For the general procedure of how to enable and configure HA, see “How to use HA” on page 56.
This section contains the following topics:
• About high availability
• About the heartbeat and synchronization
• How to use HA
• Monitoring the HA status
• Configuring service-based failover
• Example: Failover scenarios
About high availability
FortiVoice units operate in active-passive HA mode which has the following features:
• 2 FortiVoice units in the HA group
• Both configuration and data synchronized (For exceptions to synchronized configuration
items, see “Configuration settings that are not synchronized” on page 55.
• Only primary unit processes phone calls
• No data loss when hardware fails although active calls are disconnected and line
appearance and extension appearance take time to restore
• Has failover protection, but no increased processing capacity.