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pavan_Gopparaju
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Nov 30, 2016

Changing Hostname for a device in HA pair

Hi, I have an LTM pair configured in HA and i would like to change the hostname for my standby device. will this effect my HA connection or the device trust by any means...!!   I'm running on 11.6...
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    Samir_Jha_52506
    Dec 04, 2016

    will this effect my HA connection or the device trust by any mean..

    It will lose HA connectivity & both device will work as Active-Active and that cause traffic disruption.

    While changing device name, you need to reset device trust & rebuilt DSC group once again. I have followed same process which has given in article.

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Samir_Jha_52506
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Dec 04, 2016

will this effect my HA connection or the device trust by any mean..

It will lose HA connectivity & both device will work as Active-Active and that cause traffic disruption.

While changing device name, you need to reset device trust & rebuilt DSC group once again. I have followed same process which has given in article.