How to force a device in the cluster to be the preferred primary?

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One of the firewalls of the cluster needs to be the preferred primary.  How do you configure this?

The NSRP parameters preempt and priority are used to control the preferred primary. 

1.   On the preferred primary, enable 'preempt' mode and assign a lower priority to the firewall in the cluster.

   Configuration example:
   Important:  The device with the lowest priority will be the preferred primary.

   nsisg1000(M)-> set nsrp vsd-group id 0 priority 50  <- To assign priority to device. By default the priority is 100
nsisg1000(M)-> set nsrp vsd-group id 0 preempt      <- To enable preempt mode

   
   To verify configuration:

   nsisg1000(M)get nsrp vsd-group
VSD group info:
init hold time: 5
heartbeat lost threshold: 3
heartbeat interval: 1000(ms)
master always exist: disabled
group priority preempt holddown inelig   master       PB other members
    0       50 yes            3 no       myself 12090607
total number of vsd groups: 1
Total iteration=375750,time=399053148,max=6586,min=274,average=1062

2.   On the other firewall, the preferred backup, only the priority needs to be specified.  Assign the priority to be a higher value than the priority of the preferred primary.

   nsisg1000(B)-> set nsrp vsd-group id 0 priority 100 

Note:  A preempt hold-time may also be configured on the preferred primary.  Refer to the Concepts & Examples ScreenOS Reference Guide: Vol 11, High Availability for more information. 

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