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Mike_Thompson_9's avatar
Mike_Thompson_9
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Mar 30, 2007

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For some reason, when I call the get_failover_state method from the System module, I am getting the same result for each device.     I always get FAILOVER_STATE_STANDBY. However, if I login in ...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Mar 30, 2007
Obvious question first: are you sure you are updating the URL to each server and all requests aren't going through a shared management address? You can tell this by looking at the apache logs (/var/log/http/access_log) on each server.

 

 

If that isn't the case then here's some background:

 

 

The implementation for this method does a database lookup for the following key: "failover.bigipunitmask". If the db key does not exist -or- the value is 0 (or access to the db fails), the returned value from the method will be FAILOVER_STATE_STANDBY, otherwise it will return FAILOVER_STATE_ACTIVE.

 

 

If you have access to your BIG-IP, you can run the following command to from the CLI to get that db key

 

 

$ b db failover.bigipunitmask

 

 

 

If you find that the values are different for your separate systems, but the iControl interface is still returning FAILOVER_STATE_STANDBY, you'll likely need to open a support ticket with Product Support to find out what is going on. If the dbkey for each system is 0 or non-existant, then something is amiss with your configuration.

 

 

-Joe