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tolinrome_13817
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Mar 31, 2014

Failover IP Address

Why do the Failover IP Addresses in a cluster use include the management IP addresses and the High Availability addresses. Woudlnt it make more sense to listen only on the HA since it is directly con...
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nathe's avatar
nathe
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Mar 31, 2014

tolinrome, see

 

SOL14135

 

"F5 recommends that you configure network failover to communicate over the management network, in addition to a TMM network. Configuring network failover in this way creates a reliable failover communication channel while the system initializes, and before the TMM network connectivity channels are fully established."

 

I don't think there is a precedence here, just rather redundancy of the failover mechanism.

 

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