I need help in completing this configuration

If you can't ping the self IP addresses from your HP servers, then I suspect you've got a switching/vlan issue since they are in the same subnet. Do you have the appropriate vlan applied to your F5 interfaces, and is it tagged or untagged? Also, are the switch ports access ports or trunk ports?

They were access ports at first but i have changed them to be trunk ports now. One other thing i have noticed is that i had created a route domain and i mistakenly assigned the same ip address on the default route domain 0 and the other route domain 2 the IP addresses are 10.10.168.2 for route domain 0 and 10.10.168.2%2 for route domain 2 can this also cause my servers to not be able to ping the self IPs. i have tryed to delete and try to change the IP on one of the domains its not working it says its being used by mirroring how do i correct this.

Regards

Kudakwashe Tayo

If you are using trunk ports on the Cisco switch, then you need to use tagged vlans on the BIG-IP. If using access ports on the switch, then use untagged vlans on the BIG-IP.

To change the mirroring IP, navigate to Device Management -> Devices -> self, then Device Connectivity tab, then Mirroring.

Hi i have put trunk on the cisco switch and i have tagged the vlans on my BIG IP but still no luck in pinging any of the self IPs. But my virtual server, nodes and pool are working correctly, does it mean if they are working even if i cannot ping that everything is working as it should.

Also if you can give me a link to some videos on how to configure the BIG IP in HA mode i would very much appreciate it coz i only got 2 videos from youtube the configuring high availability and the configuring route domains but if i can get a video that shows a configuration were you end testing pings i would be happy.

Regards

Kudakwashe Tayo

hi i have tried to upgrade my firmware now to 11.4 which was already preinstalled on the BIG IP but i cannot seem to be able to activate the new license i have tryed to send the dossier to f5 and they gave me every but still it is not activating can you help me

When you say your virtual server, nodes and pool are working correctly, does this mean your pool health monitor is succeeding and client traffic through the virtual server is reaching your pool members?

There are some solutions detailing HA setup. Here are a couple:

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos_management_guide_10_1/tmos_high_avail.html

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-11-4-0/2.html

I have managed to activate the device licenses thank you very much, but my issue was my management interface on the big ip devices are in a vlan that does not have internet access on my cisco switch.So i had to do a manual activation.

Thank you soooo much for your help

Are there any other lingering problems or is everything working as intended now? HA setup all good and traffic flowing as expected?

Just finished on the activation i had to reconfigure everything but still i cannot ping the IP addresses although my nodes and everything are now showing green and they are said to be available.

Another issue im now facing after the upgrade is although my devices are sayed to be insync when i try to synchronise new configuration changes one of the devices is showing as disconnected. But im still to test on HA setup and traffic flow can you tell me how i can test these.

Will keep you informed.

even on the statistics dashboard it shows that traffic is coming in and out from the interfaces could this mean all is well.