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Dazzla_20011
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Dec 05, 2012

Force a BIG-IP LTM Offline

Hi,   has anyone used the force offline on a BIG-IP to perform maintenance work, if so how does it work? I plan to do this on Standby LTM and this isn't something I've tried before. Anything I nee...
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pete_71470
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Dec 05, 2012
We've used the feature here. From observing the units physically, it appears to simply shut off all but the management interface. While working with F5 to replace a blade, we were told the offline'd unit could still receive configsync updates but in our case that wasn't a possibility because we use a dedicated HA interface. Aside from this there were no surprises.