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Fahad_130290
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Sep 10, 2014

Odd Viprion behaviour

We have a pair of Viprion with two blades each in Slot1 & Slot2 respectively.   On the standby Viprion the Slot2 got abruptly rebooted and was not be complete the initialization thereon. We saw t...
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BinaryCanary_19
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Sep 13, 2014

when two boxes go into standby mode, the reason is usually because Vlan failsafe is misconfigured.

 

by misconfigured, i mean, it is configured on a VLAN which is tied to a device that went down. One typical example is the HA vlan. Naturally, when you reboot the standby device, this VLAN will go down and trigger a failsafe action in the active box (which is typically "go standby").