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Carlande_Desarm's avatar
Carlande_Desarm
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Jan 12, 2016

bigip comes back active immediately after manual failover

I have the situation where after failing over active device to standby, standby device becomes active and immediately goes back to standby which means that the previously active device reverted back ...
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Ryan_80361's avatar
Ryan_80361
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Jan 12, 2016

If you look in the GUI under Device Management -> Traffic Groups -> Your Traffic Group, Properties is the "Auto Failback" check-box enabled or disabled?

 

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crodriguez
Ret. Employee
Jan 12, 2016
If Auto Failback is enabled for the traffic group, after a failover event, the traffic group floats from the device that failed to the device that has taken over and is now active (the formerly standby device). When the device that failed comes back online again, the traffic group will automatically float back to it's "home" device, essentially causing another failover event from the perspective of connected clients. If Auto Failback is NOT enabled on the traffic group, then it will stay on whatever device it floats to on failover regardless of whether or not its "home" device is online again.