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Anthonie
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Apr 11, 2022

Big-IQ HA logs

Hi, We have a BIG-IQ HA setup with 4 servers. Two DCD and two mains. One as active and the other standby. When a failover happens for whatever reason i'm assuming there is some information about tha...
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  • Sebastiansierra's avatar
    Sebastiansierra
    Apr 12, 2022

    Hi,

    Without documentation, I recommend you open a support case with F5 level 4 " how-to ", because I am almost sure that these events are in var/log/ltm, but it's better if support confirms it if you can´t perform a failover.

    and the other question, the answer is Yes, Big-IQ is based on TMOS, and the OS is similar to Big-IP that runs TMOS inside too, you can try this command without any wrong behavior tmsh show /cm failover-status.

     

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Sebastiansierra
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Apr 12, 2022

Hi,

Could you review in the Central Manager "Main for you" the path /var/log/ltm, the logs structure in the Big-IQ looks in some cases as in Big-IP devices.

  • Anthonie's avatar
    Anthonie
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    Apr 12, 2022

    Hi thanks for for your input.

    In /var/log there is many logfiles, deamon, maillog, cron, restjavad etc. And as you said there is also ltm. Do you know what kind of event i would be looking for in that file? I'm not sure i can orchestrate a failover to try it out.

    Also, do you happen to know if there is any documentation on this?

    Thanks!