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mkyrc's avatar
mkyrc
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Aug 22, 2023

Poll members not stable after failover

Hi, Our setup: - two vcmp guests in HA (viprion with two blades) - ~10 partitions - simple configuration with LTM, AFM. nodes directly connected to f5 device (f5 device is default gw for nodes). ...
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Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh
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Aug 23, 2023

Hi mkyrc , 

try to capture the https monitor traffic in vCMP guest 1 which senses this flapping. 

take pcap at the flapping time and look at time interval in each request form bigip self ip address to server nodes specially with https , this will help to detect if bigip has issues with monitor traffic or not ? 

also check if you increased the monitor check interval to 10 instead of 5 & timeout 31 instead of 16. 

and see the behavior , maybe there are issues in server side for the first bigip and feels some delay from servers. 

anyway , test that , it will be good starting point  

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    mkyrc
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    Aug 24, 2023

    Hi Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh,
    All this I did, but no success. I discussed with application team and I think, we moved a bit forward.

    Situation:
    1. f5 devices (both) are monitoring directly connected server (pool members). This is FLOW1. Here is no problem, depending on which device is active.
    2. I found out that the server is establishing a new connection (FLOW2), to other system located in different subnet. Our server has default GW to f5 devices (his float ip address). i think, the issue is connected to this FLOW2 connection.

    Reason of the problem:
    - when active device is f5-02, FLOW2 is routed (virtual server 0.0.0.0/0 FastL4) correctly. no problem here.
    - when f5-01 is active, FLOW2 is going to f5-01 (because float ip (default gw) is moved here), and servers have a problem contacting other system located in different subnet in data center. the connection is very often interrupted.

    There is a no problem of moving float IPs between f5-02 and f5-02, no problem with arp records (a neighbors learned correct MAC addresses), f5 devices accept FLOW2 traffic (AFM rule is allowing all trafic sourced from server IP addresses to 'any'), also return traffic is routed correctly (to float address located on 'outside' of the f5 devices).

    During other maintenance window, I will check:
    - tcpdump in front and behind f5-01 if the packets are going correctly
    - prepare logging afm rule
    - cpu usage on f5-01
    - there is no network issue (packet drops on physical layer, checked last time)
    - /var/log/ltm is without issue (checked last time)
    - what else can I check? any idea?