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Dec 03, 2011

F5 HA Serial Cable

is the HA serial cable a normal console cable ( i Rxed with the Box 2 serial cables one named Console & one named Failover , can i swap them ) ?    
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Nov 18, 2012
Yes , UTP Cables are mandatory . Serial Cables are additional Option .

 

UTP Cables can provide let's the 2 boxes sense each others + provides Config Sync

 

Serial Cable is Juts Voltage sense ( let's the 2 boxes sense each others )