Before you move your Sensor inline, consider the impact of a Sensor outage and its effect on your network. In inline mode, the Sensor does become a single point of failure. Trellix IPS provides a variety of options to minimize network downtime in the event of Sensor failure. For example, Sensors support complete stateful failover, delivering the industry's first true high-availability IPS deployment, similar to what you'd find with firewalls. If you're running the Sensor in inline mode, Trellix recommends that you deploy two Sensors redundantly for failover protection.
Determine your high availability strategy
- Published on Oct 5, 2026
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