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Federico_Battag's avatar
Federico_Battag
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Nov 15, 2013

Force to StandBy button doesn't work

Hi all, I’m writing this message to ask if someone can help me about a strange behavior of my HA-Active/StandBy VIPRION 2400 (LTM) . A few days ago I upgraded from version 11.1.0 to 11.4.0 HF3. The u...
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Hamish's avatar
Hamish
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Nov 15, 2013

Are you using HAGroups and also have AutoFailback enabled on the traffic-group? If so, then we've seen the same thing. (Ours also had 2 nodes claiming to be the active, although only one really was). Note that in a 6 node cluster we had the same issues when only 2 nodes were left up, but neither of them were the default device...

 

F5 support eventually came back after duplicating the issue, and said this isn't a supported combination. We've removed the auto-failback, which has resolved the issue of nodes disagreeing who was active, but I haven't tried moving the traffic-group between nodes manually yet...

 

They were a bit guarded about manual moving with HAGroups as well... But I haven't need to push them on that yet. It may simply have been a misunderstanding between us...

 

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