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Anju's avatar
Anju
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Apr 04, 2018

F5 Active Failover Status

Hello All, I am looking for some help here, I am trying to find out when and how the Active device in HA pair went to Standby. And now, it is still on standby and did not become active. Its a virtual F5 instance and the monitoring is being done by a different team. Also, I need some suggestion on how to monitor these devices if I can do any at my end? Its very difficult to keep an eye on it as each time I have to login to it and see the device status and everything up and running. Any input will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM

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  • youssef1's avatar
    youssef1
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    Apr 04, 2018
    Hello, 

you can do it in different ways:

-> SNMP:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14399

n BIG-IP 11.2.0 and later, the F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB file contains the sysCmFailoverStatusId object identifier (OID) (1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.14.3.1) that can be queried through SNMP to determine the failover status of a BIG-IP system in a device group. The sysCmFailoverStatusId uses an integer value to represent the status of the BIG-IP system. The following table provides the possible values for this OID:

Value   Failover Status Description
0   unknown The failover status of the device is unknown
1   offline The device is offline
2   forcedOffline   The device is forced offline
3   standby The device is standby
4   active  The device is active

-> Via syslog:
You can send logs to a syslog servers (elastic search by example) and track some words (create notification)...
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/log-messages.html
Regards,