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JCK_171200
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May 19, 2018

Upgrading 11.5.1 to 13.1.0.6

Upgraded the standby unit, no problem. Then the two units were in a disconnected state and it won't let me fail over to the standby due to a software mismatch. How can I get the standby to active so I can upgrade the first unit? Surely there is a way to force the standby into active?

 

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  • Samir_Jha_52506's avatar
    Samir_Jha_52506
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    May 19, 2018

    Ah! Many configuration changes has added between V11.x to V13.x. Hope you have gone through release notes. If not, no worries.

    Options 1(

    Not Recommended
    )- Make Active unit out of device sync group, So both will become Active-Active. In that case easily you can make one unit offline and install image & hotfix(v13.x) and later add in device group. But its tedious process and outage time will more then expected.

    Option 2(

    Better Approach
    )--> Go to 11.x to 12.x in different partition and validate the configuration(i.e Virtual, Pool, Interface, Memory, cpu,etc )in both unit(Active & Standby). If all is well then boot to V13.x partition.

    Hope issue will solved.

    Hi Expert, Please add your inputs.

  • Niels_van_Sluis's avatar
    Niels_van_Sluis
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    May 19, 2018

    No need to go from 11.x to 12.x to get to 13.x. One can go from 11.x to 13.x directly. See: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13845

     

    Check that the 13.x unit has loaded it’s configuration completely by running the command ‘show /sys mcp-state’. This command should return something saying that the config is fully loaded.

     

    Try to login to the active and select ‘force to standby’.