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damian_19221
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Feb 17, 2015

Traffic failover in AWS

Hi, We're currently investigating the AWS platform and have moved a clone of all of our business applications to EC2. The last step is to sort out load balancing. As our current "real" F5s use way ab...
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Daniel_Epperson
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Feb 23, 2015

Hi Damian, this is the problematic error:

 

Feb 17 11:42:20 awsif5e01a2 err logger: /usr/libexec/aws/aws-failover-tgactive.sh (traffic-group-1): Failed to reassign address: 10.242.20.21 on interface eni-01d2c258.

 

Something is causing the API call from BIP to AWS to fail. The question is, why does it fail? Have you correctly configured your AWS API key and secret on the BIGIP? If you follow this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVtZdYaU6BE on a fresh set of Instances, does failover then work?