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wilfred_pascasi
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Jul 31, 2006

send an email when failover occurs

I would like to know if there is a way to receive an email from the bigip when it failover from active to standby or vice versa. I am running version 4.5.7.
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wilfred_pascasi
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Aug 02, 2006
The last suggestion regarding alertd does not work in my environment because I am running version 4.5.7. I call F5 support and I was told that their solution (sol2198) would not work either. So practically all they could tell me is that I need to write some script/code in order to get notification when failover occurs.

 

 

I did look at the db file but was only able to obtain information regarding the unit id.

 

 

b db get Local.Bigip.Failover.UnitId

 

 

This only identify which box is host1 and which box is host2 but it does not tell me which one is the active box.

 

 

Any suggestion or idea will be greatly appreciated