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ka_49032
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Feb 15, 2012

v11 upgrade without downtime for active/standby pair?

Hi!     Were running active/standby pairs of v10.2.3 that are connected with the fail-over serial cable.     I've upgraded a couple BIGIP's to v11 using the guide F5 provides:   http:/...
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Josh_41258
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Mar 06, 2012
I am attempting to upgrade a 10.2 active/standby pair to 11.1 HF2. I am following the guide referenced in this URL.

 

 

After upgrading and rebooting the 10.2 standby box, the new 11.1 installation came up in a "ONLINE (STANDBY)" state. If I browse to Network -> Traffic Groups, I see a message that says:

 

 

"Upgrading Device Trust - Device trust is still being upgraded. Please do not make modifications to Device Management or Traffic Groups pages while this message is displayed."

 

 

My device group contains it'e self and a dummy device. According to the documentation, shouldn't this box show an "ACTIVE" state? Once I disable the 10.2 active boxes interfaces, and re-enable the new 11.1 boxes interfaces, it should start processing traffic in an ACTIVE state, correct?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Josh
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    danteampdc_1740
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    Oct 14, 2014
    We actually just did an upgrade recently and ran into the same problem when upgrading to 11.6. We followed the directions to upgrade an active/standby but when rebooting into 11.6 we also got the ONLINE (STANDBY) and we could not get the 11.6 device to handle traffic. The solution was actually as simple as going to the ACTIVE node (the one not upgraded yet) and force it to standby. Even though both devices reported they were in standalone mode this actually did work. Once we toggled the standby unit to active we were able to update the 2nd unit and the rest of the upgrade went fairly well.