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Spidey_29396
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Nov 03, 2015

Three devices clustered but only 2 is going active when using "force to standby"

HI All,   I have 3 devices in cluster.   bigip1 bigip2 bigip3   bigip1 is my current active.when the bigip1 was forced to standby, bigip2 becames active. When we force bigip2 to standby, the...
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Henrik_Gyllkran
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Nov 03, 2015

Yes, that is indeed how it's supposed to work. The default failover method for a traffic group is "Load Aware" so unless you have multiple traffic groups and bigip1 is already active for those I suspect that since there is a tie between bigip1 and bigip3 when you force bigip2 to standby bigip1 will win simply by being the first BIG-IP in the list. Read more about the Load Aware calculation here:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-11-6-0/6.html?sr=49108538