BIP-IP c2400 VCMP Archive Bug

Question

We are currently facing issue to run archive process on all VCMP on c2400 chassis. f5 identified this to be an bug and provided an hotfix but we are unable to apply the fix due to maintenance window. We are running behind on backup for months now. &nbsp;
Is there any other manual process that we can run a archive process so we can restore the box in case of any crash scenario ?&nbsp;

shaggy · Answer

you'll have to describe the issue you are currently facing - does the issue prevent the creation of a UCS archive on a vCMP guest? Is the bug isolated to creating the UCS in the UI or UCS creation in general? also, what version of BIGIP is the guest running?

sriram_kannan_1 · Answer

Bug prevents VCMP guest to create an UCS archive file as it spike CPU Utilization. UCS Archive on the chassis itself is fine. The problem is isolated only to VCMP.  Running an archive process triggers the issue caused by "syscalld" daemon which occupies the CPU resources, forcing the process in a deadlock situation. Manual Kill of the daemon process is required to recover the situation.

VCMP are running BIG-IP 11.6.0 Build 1.0.403 Hotfix HF1

brad_parker · Answer

As a last resort backup, you can grab a copy of your /config directory via SCP or SFTP using something like WinSCP until you can apply the hotfix.  This will allow you to rebuild in case of a disaster by grabing the bigip_base.conf and bigip.conf.  If the guests are in an HA pair you just need to rebuild the guest and copy bigip_base.conf and re-sync if the unforeseen happens.&nbsp;

russt · Answer

I had a similar issue on 11.6.0 upto hotfix 3 with Viprion C2400, all VCMP guest's cold not archive config,  it was due to rest javad.

a restart from cli with bigstart restart restjavad would resolved the issue but re-occur within days and require a new restart of service to archive.

sriram_kannan_1 · Answer

This issue is identified to be an bug in 11.6 and an hotfix resolved the issue.

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