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Hooni_L
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Jan 16, 2023
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Why it does not switching secondary ip address on azure when failover???

Device 1 : #1 (Active) Device 2 : #2 (Standby) I performed a failover. Active device running Failover script, but it fail. There seems to be an abnormal operation on the secondary IP. to assig...
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  • Hooni_L's avatar
    Hooni_L
    Jan 20, 2023

    Hi JRahm 

    I couldn't find a solution from the data you gave me.

    but I will try the following measures.

    Clear the statusdb file:

    1. In the Azure portal, go into the storage account ending with 'data000'
    2. Go to containers, "failover" container
    3. Delete statusdb file
     

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Jeff_Giroux_F5
Ret. Employee
Jan 24, 2023

If using the cloud failover extension (assumed here) then take a look at the tshooting section in F5 CloudDocs. The Cloud Failover tshooting section talks about resetting state file and reviewing logs...

https://clouddocs.f5.com/products/extensions/f5-cloud-failover/latest/userguide/troubleshooting.html

Also helps to know how you initially deployed the BIG-IP devices...using templates? Manually through marketplace then manually doing HA setup? Here's a tshooting section from the ARM templates github repo...

https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-azure-arm-templates-v2/tree/main/examples/failover#troubleshooting-steps

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    Hooni_L
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    Jan 26, 2023

    Jeff_Giroux_F5 

    I used ARM template gitbug repo(full stack).