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jernailrai_4272
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Apr 08, 2011

Different Time Zone cause cause load balancers failover

I have a switch where 2 LB's were connected was configured to use the CST timestamp while the LB's are located Africa/Lome timezone. Both devices are used the different NTP servers. how the time...
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jernailrai_4272
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Apr 17, 2011
got a support ticket created with F5 :

 

 

 

realized that the TIME ZONE or a difference of time between the switch and load balancer could not be a cause of the failover event. Indeed, if so, it would have occurred again in the past 2 months since it happened last time.

 

Some evidences in the logs really pointed to a switch port fault and then, the load balancer triggered a failover event, which is expected.

 

At this point I do not recommend any changes on Load balancer time zone settings and if this event occurs again I would recommend to check the switch´s ports and LACP transactions (status/logs).

 

 

Anyways we are gonna close this for the time being and monitor if it happens again...

 

 

thx guys for the help