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jdalyf5
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Apr 30, 2020

LTM HA pair, how to gracefully switch active/standby nodes

I apologize because i know this is a super simple question but i cant seem to find out how to do it. I have two LTMs in an active/standby HA pair. I would like to gracefully switch which LTM is activ...
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Beaker
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Apr 30, 2020

These are the procedures we use:

 

To Fail over Viprions

  1. Go to the Active F5 in the pair 
  2. Click on the Cluster Enabled Segment 
  3. Once on the Device Management Screen, Highlight the your traffic group field 
  4. Then press the Force to Standby button 

  

Failing Over F5s 

  

To Fail over 

  1. Go to the Active F5 in the pair 
  2. Click on the ONLINE (ACTIVE) Segment (TOP left corner)
  3. Then press the Force to Standby button