BGP and IPSEC VPN Failover

Bl8ckr0uter

So I have two sites that use BGP to fail over ip address spaces in a non automated fashion (ie one site doesn't advertise the space and the other does so there is no primary/secondary relationship at this time). The problem I have is that while the pings come over, the ipsec tunnels that terminate to those devices do not. We do not want to move to an automated failover at this time. For anyone in this situation, would it be better to set up a scheduled ping to create interesting traffic on both routers (knowing that it will fail the vast majority of the time on the second non primary site) so that when the ip space does fail over the tunnels fire up or should I just move to an automated solutions (by way of BGP weights)?

blaker00

ip sla... tends to be faster.