VPN Broker gateway element types for VPN Broker high availability

In a VPN Broker high availability configuration, both VPN Broker Gateway and External VPN Broker Gateway elements are used.

A VPN Broker Gateway element represents the local VPN Broker gateway in the NGFW Manager that manages it.
An External VPN Broker Gateway element represents a remote VPN Broker gateway that is managed by a different NGFW Manager.

The same VPN Broker gateway is both a local VPN Broker gateway in its own configuration, and a remote VPN Broker gateway in the configurations of other VPN Broker gateways.

For example, VPN Broker Gateway A is managed by NGFW Manager A, and VPN Broker Gateway B is managed by NGFW Manager B. This table shows the element types that represent the VPN Broker gateways in each NGFW Manager.

Table 1. VPN Broker gateway element types
NGFW Manager	VPN Broker Gateway A	VPN Broker Gateway B
A	VPN Broker Gateway	External VPN Broker Gateway
B	External VPN Broker Gateway	VPN Broker Gateway