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Anju
Altostratus
AltostratusF5 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 virtua...
youssef1
Cumulonimbus
CumulonimbusHello,
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,
