With Zenarmor 2.2, we're excited to introduce automatic failover priority for advertised secure private networks, a significant enhancement that improves network reliability and uptime across your secure overlay networks. This new capability is now available directly within the Secure Networks section of Zenconsole, making redundancy management simple, visual, and intuitive.
Why Network Resilience is Essential in the Distributed Workplace
In distributed and hybrid environments, continuous access to private resources is essential. Whether traffic moves between branch offices, cloud workloads, or remote users, a single point of failure can stop productivity, often caused by PoP outages or VPN concentrator problems in traditional cloud-only SASE and VPN solutions, respectively.
Furthermore, without automated redundancy, you rely on manual reconfiguration or failover scripts when a gateway becomes unavailable, adding complexity and delay when uptime matters most.
Zenarmor SASE Anywhere Architecture™ already removes dependency on centralized cloud points of presence or traditional VPN concentrators, allowing direct P2P connectivity amongst peers. The new automatic failover priority feature builds upon this advantage, introducing intelligent route prioritization and dynamic resiliency across your secure private network.
How It Works
Within the Secure Networks UI, administrators can now:
- Advertise networks behind each peer gateway.
- Assign failover priorities to those gateways.
- Automatically reroute traffic if a higher-priority peer becomes unreachable.
If one peer gateway experiences an outage or network disruption, Zenarmor automatically detects the outage and reroutes traffic to the next available peer, without user intervention.
This is achieved through Zenarmor's lightweight Single-App, Single-Pass SASE engine, which continuously monitors peer health and dynamically adjusts routing paths in real time.
Benefits of Automatic Failover
1. Enhanced Reliability
Your secure overlay networks now remain resilient against outages. Connections stay alive, ensuring business continuity and a consistent user experience.
2. Zero Manual Intervention
Administrators no longer need to modify configurations or execute scripts to restore traffic flow. Zenarmor's engine handles the transition automatically.
3. Optimized Performance
Traffic always follows the most reliable route available, minimizing latency and downtime.
4. Seamless Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Support
Whether your gateways reside on-premises, in private clouds, or across multiple providers, Zenarmor maintains a unified routing experience ideal for distributed and multi-cloud enterprises.
5. Simplified Management
From within Zenconsole's single pane of glass, you can visualize peer status, failover order, and real-time network activity, all in one place.
Automatic failover priority in Zenarmor delivers smarter, self-healing connectivity for your secure private networks. It extends the Zenarmor vision of giving organizations complete control and visibility, without reliance on cloud backhauling or complex configurations.
Your secure private network just got more resilient, adaptive, and autonomous, because protection and connectivity shouldn't stop when a gateway does.
For details of the release please check the documentation: Zenarmor SASE 2.2 Release
