Big-IP AFM is not syncing with the NTP Server

I have recently read an article similar to my concern (https://devcentral.f5.com/s/feed/0D51T00006pYJxWSAW) however the workarounds here still have not solved the issue.

Our current setup involves a Big-IP LTM and a Big-IP AFM, with the external interface of the Big-IP AFM connected

to the internal interface of the Big-IP LTM.

Below is a list of the current configurations and workarounds that we have done. Note that Big-IP LTM is currently not having any issues syncing with the NTP server and initially the Big-IP AFM is not able to reach the NTP server via ping.:

• configuring a policy in the Big-IP AFM to which we think is not specified, therefore is being directed to the global drop rule; this did not produce any change to the initial scenario
• configuring a management route for the Big-IP AFM; this made it possible for the Big-IP AFM to reach the NTP server via ping, but using the command ntpq -np shows no stats, and is not synchronizing with the NTP server

Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

}}} kiko