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Martin_Sharratt
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Nov 21, 2014

Inconsistent Monitors

We have two F5 LTM's in a Sync-Failover pair. They're load balancing some critical production services. They are automatically sync'ed and they both say they are in sync. I inherited them a couple o...
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shaggy
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Nov 21, 2014
  1. Is this normal behaviour? no
  2. If not, (or even if it is) what happens when there's a failover? the nodes may still fail
  3. Is there any way of manually forcing the secondary to rescan? bigd is the process that handles monitoring, so restarting that service may kick something into gear on the standby unit 
    tmsh restart sys service bigd

also, since this is strange behavior, you should open a case with f5 support. they may be able to help you better-identify potential issues