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rgordon_01
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Aug 20, 2018

APM archived log that shows when active box failed over to standby

is there any archived log on the APM that will show when exactly the active device failed over to standby? The current logs only go back to the start of the day and I've check the remote system we l...
application delivery
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
LTM
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jaikumar_f5
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Aug 21, 2018

Failover logs are seen on the ltm log file. Try the below if the log files are not rolled.

egrep -i 'active|standby' /var/log/ltm

egrep -i 'failover|failsafe' /var/log/ltm

egrep -i 'watchdog|overdog' /var/log/ltm

If you think the log files have been rotated, try the below,

zcat /var/log/ltm.*.gz | egrep -i 'active|standby'