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John-31's avatar
John-31
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Aug 02, 2022

BigIQ and BigIP status out of synch

Is there a task or function on BigIQ where it can quickly synch the status of BigIQ and its managed device like BigIP LTM so that they both reflect the same object status? We are seeing that BigIQ i...
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Kevin_Davies
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Aug 20, 2022

When a product is managed by BIG-IQ your meant to make changes using BIG-IQ. You are not meant to touch the managed F5. The BIG-IQ is a product management solution hence it is mean to be the source of truth for device configuation. So all changes should happen through its console. 

For faster convergence of node/virtual status configure SNMP alerting options to inform BIG-IQ of status changes othewise it will pick up changes on polling which takes time -  AskF5 | Manual: BIG-IQ: Monitoring and Reports

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Bryan-00
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Sep 20, 2022

Hi Kevin_Davies, the link provided is to enable SNMP on BIGIQ and have it polled or send traps to an NMS. Can you elaborate more on how will this improve updates from managed BIGIPs to BIGIQ? Do we need to setup the managed BIGIP's to send SNMP traps to BIGIQ?? Thanks in advance!