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SteveEason
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Jan 20, 2017

F5 HA: Active F5 is gone and can't force Standby to take over

I just started working with the F5's at my company and I'm still learning my way around everything. During my process of mapping out all our existing F5's I discovered that our staging F5 was setup w...
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KeesvandenBos
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Jan 20, 2017

Hi Steve,

 

You can remove the B device from the traffic and the device group. Leave the A device in the device group and remove the B device from the trusted device list. (this should make the A device active)

 

After rebuilding the B device, add it to the trusted devices and back into the device group.

 

Cheers,

 

Kees