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Davidfisher_345
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Jul 20, 2018

Trying Active-Active-Standby in LAB, 2 devices show as offline.

Hey Gents, This was the plan: BIGIP1-A TG1 BIGIP2-A TG2 BIGIP3-S For both TG1 and TG2 But right now all TGs are only ACTIVE on BIGIP3 and shows as "Initializing / Not Synced". On BIGIP3 I...
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Andy_McGrath's avatar
Andy_McGrath
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Aug 20, 2018

First make sure each device in the Device Group has the following configured correctly,

  • Configsync Ip
  • Mirroring IP
  • Failover Unitcast IP/Multicast IP

Once corrected ensure each device has the other 2 devices listed correctly and as connected under 

Device Management  ››  Device Trust : Peer List

You may need to delete and redo the Trusts to ensure all three trust each other and see each other as connected.

If you run 

show cm device
you should see something like this:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
CentMgmt::Device: f5vm01.test.lab
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname                        f5vm01.test.lab
Mgmt Ip                         10.0.0.11
Configsync Ip                   192.168.0.11
Mirroring IP                    192.168.0.11
Mirroring Secondary IP          ::
Failover Multicast IP           ::
Failover Unicast IP(s)          192.168.0.11
Device HA State                 active
Device HA Load Capacity         0
Device Current Load Factor      1
Device Next Active Load Factor  0

-----------------------------------------------------------------
CentMgmt::Device: f5vm02.test.lab
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname                        f5vm02.test.lab
Mgmt Ip                         10.0.0.12
Configsync Ip                   192.168.0.12
Mirroring IP                    192.168.0.12
Mirroring Secondary IP          ::
Failover Multicast IP           ::
Failover Unicast IP(s)          192.168.0.12
Device HA State                 standby
Device HA Load Capacity         0
Device Current Load Factor      0
Device Next Active Load Factor  1
-----------------------------------------------------------------
CentMgmt::Device: f5vm03.test.lab
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname                        f5vm03.test.lab
Mgmt Ip                         10.0.0.13
Configsync Ip                   192.168.0.13
Mirroring IP                    192.168.0.13
Mirroring Secondary IP          ::
Failover Multicast IP           ::
Failover Unicast IP(s)          192.168.0.13
Device HA State                 standby
Device HA Load Capacity         0
Device Current Load Factor      0
Device Next Active Load Factor  0

Then setup your traffic groups, one at a time, 

show cm traffic-group traffic-group-1 traffic-group-2
should look like this:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
CM::Traffic-Group
Name             Device                 Status   Next
                                                 Active
-------------------------------------------------------------------
traffic-group-1  f5vm01.test.lab        active   false
traffic-group-1  f5vm02.test.lab        standby  false
traffic-group-1  f5vm03.test.lab        standby  true

traffic-group-2  f5vm01.test.lab        standby  false
traffic-group-2  f5vm02.test.lab        active   false
traffic-group-2  f5vm03.test.lab        standby  true