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fernandohcsilva
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Feb 08, 2018

Manual failover

Hi!   I need help understanding a failover configuration, I have one appliance in each data center, when there is a loss of communication between the data centers and communication is reestablishm...
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Robell_Pontes_7
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Feb 08, 2018

I assume they're on a pair, if they stop talking to each other, they'll both think the peer went down and the Standby will go Active. Once the communication is restored, one of them will go into Standby.

 

What exactly is the issue? Would you want A to be the preferred Active unit rather than B? What BIG-IP version is being used?