ASA doesn't display Primary/secondary status.

ASA doesn't display Primary/secondary status.

  June 01, 2018    Raj

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Hello again,

I had a pair of ASAs and wanted to put them in failover. I configured that and everything was working fine.
Only thing I did not like was how my ASA was displaying its name. On both ASAs I see the name as ciscoasa#

I wanted it to be something that can tell me on which ASA I am. Am I on Primary or Secondary ASA?
Am I on Active or standby ASA?

"sh failover" will show that.

Then I figured out that we can even have the "priority" and "state" displayed right there in hostname.

Use command " prompt"

ASA1(config)# prompt hostname ?

configure mode commands/options:
  cluster-unit     Display the cluster unit name in the session prompt
  context          Display the context in the session prompt (multimode only)
  domain           Display the domain in the session prompt
  management-mode  Display management mode
  priority         Display the priority in the session prompt (If your ASA is Primary/Secondary)
  state            Display the traffic passing state in the session prompt (Active or Standby)
  <cr>

With command "prompt hostname" it will only display ASA hostname. Now if you want to display "priority" of ASA use "prompt hostname priority".

Let's also have "state" displayed as well:

ASA1(config)# prompt hostname  priority state