Adding a virtual to physical HA pair for ConfigSync
I have 2 physical devices, let's say bigip01 and bigip02. They are in an HA pair with ConfigSync, a traffic group etc. Running version 13.1.3.4.
I am trying to add a 3rd, virtual device called bigip03; this will normally be in a forced offline state, however I would like to keep the configuration from bigip01/02 sync'd over to bigip03 as backup.
I tried to setup device trust by adding bigip03 to bigip01 under device trust members. It successfully adds bigip03 as a trusted device to bigip01 and big02 when I do this, however on bigip03 it only adds bigip01 as a trusted device. bigip02 is not trusted. As a result, I get errors in the logs for attempting to sync that say:
bigip03 err mcpd[6078]: 01071470:3: Disconnecting from CMI device /Common/bigip02.xxxxx.com, the device is not in a trust domain.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I already made the mistake of trying to manually adding bigip02 as a trusted device on bigip03. bigip03 and bigip02 then split off and create their own HA pair away from bigip01. Not good!