Partition refuses to delete!

Hello Ewan,

 

I believe you must be having Nodes left in that partition. Go to GUI, select the partition at the top and then -->Local Traffic ---> Node. You will see Nodes in that partition, delete those Nodes and then delete the partition.

 

Shishir

Shishir, Thanks for the response but if only it was that easy. If I select my partition and look in Local Traffic > Nodes all I see are nodes from the Common partition. Any other ideas? Regards, Ewan

when you say the partition is Empty, that means it does not have any VIPs or Pools in there? Please make sure about these. Do the same procedure for Virtual Servers and Pools as you did for Nodes and see if that helps.

I have configured Big-IPs for several years now and created and deleted many partitions, this error just baffles me.

 

 

I have checked through all sections in the GUI and there is nothing other than the default items - No VSs, no Pools, no custom Profile or iRules etc.

 

 

As I said when I look in the bigip.conf file there is only one line stating that the partition exist, nothing under it.

 

 

 

Any idea how I can find out what a type ID (2833) is as stated in the error message?

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Ewan

 

 

Hello Ewan,

 

Sorry to reply you late. I checked this in the LAB. Please check for if you have created a user in DEVPART partition. Delete the User and then try to delete the partition. Reply if this solves the issue.

 

Thanks.

 

 

Shishir

Shishir,

 

 

Appreciate you taking the time to get back to me. I have checked all my users this morning and all are Administartors so have access to all partitions. Just to reiterate I have had not other problems dleting partitions, I had 4 to delete, I successfully deleted 3 and this last one throws up the error.

 

 

Any other ideas?

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Ewan

Shishir,

 

 

Woo hoo I have managed to sort the problem and delte the partition;-)

 

 

I decided to have a look through all of the config files, not just bigip.conf, to see if I could spot something out of the ordinary. I found the problem in bigip_sysy.conf and it was just like you described...for some reason one administrative user was listed under the DEVPART partition statement in this file not with the other administrative users. I moved the user statement to its correct position in the file, save bigip_sys.conf and did a b load. Following the b load I was able to delete the partition from the GUI.

 

 

Thanks for your help and the pointer.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Ewan

have you ever tried this one?

 

 

sol13030: Forcing the mcpd process to reload configuration

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/000/sol13030

 

 

hope this helps.

That did it!

 

 

Even though we were issuing the reload command, it was not updating the binary image of the system. So the reboot was reading the binary and not the text files.

 

 

The corrective action was to:

 

1) remove any vestiges of the partition from all the files under /config

 

2) touch /service/mcpd/forceload

 

3) reboot

 

 

Once done, the partition was gone - finally.

 

 

Thanks a lot!

thanks for update and glad to hear it works. ;-)