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Vitor_Hugo_Domi
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Dec 31, 2013

How do you check if my bigip was forced offline or entered into failover

Hi all,   I have a question, How do you check if my bigip was forced offline or entered into failover? This is in the ltm log? How do I see in F5 Web?   tks  
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nitass
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Dec 31, 2013

e.g.

 tmsh run sys failover standby at active unit

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tail -f /var/log/ltm
Dec 31 01:54:57 ve11a notice sod[6270]: 010c0044:5: Command:  go standby tmsh.
Dec 31 01:54:57 ve11a notice sod[6270]: 010c0052:5: Standby for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1.
Dec 31 01:54:57 ve11a notice sod[6270]: 010c0018:5: Standby

 tmsh run sys failover offline at active unit

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tail -f /var/log/ltm
Dec 31 01:56:14 ve11a notice sod[6270]: 010c0044:5: Command:  go offline all tmsh.
Dec 31 01:56:14 ve11a notice sod[6270]: 010c0055:5: Forced offline for traffic group /Common/traffic-group-1.
Dec 31 01:56:14 ve11a notice sod[6270]: 010c003f:5: Forced offline