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Jun 06, 2026
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Big-IQ: VS connection/pool stats visible, but Virtual Server health status not displayed

I have version 8.4.0 Big-IQ and 17.1.3 Big-IP VE(Azure). Required communication is flowing from what I can tell between Big-IP<->DCD and Big-IP<->CM and necessary ports open. However, when I enable s...
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    Jun 10, 2026

    This is now resolved. I noticed we had 2 self-ups configured on the DCDs. One to push stats from Big-IP, however we have another that is the official discovery IP for the DCD, that was used to transfer app and retrieve VS/pool object status. I missed that on firewall drops and routes. So glad it ended up being more straight forward.

    from F5 Document........."Although the BIG-IP system pushes the statistics data to the DCD, bi-directional connectivity using port 443 is still required. The DCD retrieves object status (online, offline, disabled, and so on) by connecting to the BIG-IP and transferring the Analytics iApp output file."