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NimbostratusWhat happens when the active member of a LTM VE pair reaches its demo license expiration?
MVPHi,
When an evaluation/demo license ends, the module becomes inactive and all configuration items are expected to cease functioning. In short, it stops processing traffic.
It will get deactivated itself when it has reached the end. Also it also happens, when the license is expired the BIG-IP Configuration utility gets stuck in “Configuration Utility restarting…” and you cannot login. In such cases, you need to ssh F5 to activate/renew license.
Hope it helps!
Mayur
NimbostratusMayur, I'm familiar with all of that. Those don't answer my specific questions.
It appears my expiring LTM VE instance finally deactivated itself at midnight local time, which was strange, as it might have allowed me to squeeze more time out of it if I'd just set the system's timezone to UTC-1100. It also failed over properly. This is something I couldn't find in any documentation: HA/failover behavior in an HA pair during a license expiration event.
- Mayur_Sutare
Yes not seeing any kind of documentation on this.
vedasHey, I am sorry to necropost but I tested this just last weekend and it seems my primary device went OFFLINE and DISCONNECTED with my standby device turning Active and DISCONNECTED. I guess that means it failed over properly.
