> Source: [sk185057](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk185057)

# sk185057 - Identity Sharing with Smart Pull may fail after a dual-site Maestro / geo-cluster failover

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk185057 |
| Date Created | 2026-06-14 |
| Last Modified | 2026-06-15 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway, Scalable Platforms |
| Versions | R82, R81.20, R82, R81.20 |

## Symptoms

- * Initial user authentication and identity sharing complete successfully.

* After failover to another site:


  * The system does not propagate identities to the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) Gateway.
  * The PEP Gateway loses all identity sessions.
  * Re-authenticating users does not restore identity sessions on the PEP.
* The applicable network appears as registered on both Policy Decision Point (PDP) and PEP.

  For example, a user from network 10.0.10.0/28 is authenticated in PDP and should be shared with 192.168.10.200.

  ```
  
  # pdp net reg
  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  | Network   | Mask            | Member ID | Registered Gateways |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  | 10.0.10.0 | 255.255.255.240 | 15        | 192.168.10.200;     |
  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  
  # pep show net reg
  -------------------------------
  | Network   | Mask            |
  -------------------------------
  | 10.0.10.0 | 255.255.255.240 |
  ------------------------------- 
  ```

* Debugs messages indicate that the PEP is not registered for the network, even though registration tables show that it is.

* IDAPI kernel debugs (fw ctl debug -m IDAPI + all) show that the network is unknown to any PDP.

## Cause

This behavior occurs due to a condition in geo-cluster environments with non-contiguous cluster member IDs (for example, Maestro deployments).

After failover, the system calculated identity-to-network associations inconsistently, which prevented the PDP from correctly recognizing networks when sharing identities with the PEP.

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