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skravens_86061
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Feb 24, 2010

Duplicate Unit IDs

Hello,     I hve a redundant pair that currently has 2 boxes with the same Unit ID. Will this affect the syncingcapability or any little errors? We do notice that the standby box always sho...
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hoolio
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Feb 24, 2010
Hi,

 

 

The unit ID is only used in an active - active pair for setting which unit should own which objects. I don't think it would have anything to do with monitoring failures. If you're using an active - standby configuration the unit ID shouldn't have any impact on anything.

 

 

Here is a page with some tips on troubleshooting monitor failures:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/AdvDesignConfig/TroubleshootingLtmMonitors.html

 

 

Aaron