we have configured a pool with two nodes, one primary and one secondary, every node has its own monitor.
The primary node monitor has set the option "manual resume" so if this node isnt avalible, the traffic goes to secondary, but doesnt switch automaticly back.
It works under normal circumstances fine, but yesterday we had some network issues so that the active loadbalancer lost the connection to the primary node, the passive loadbalancer had no problems.
We had to take down the active Loadbalancer and now the problem was that the before passive loadbalancer routed traffic to the primary node again.
Is there any solution to sync the node status automaticly?
@mwi This is normal because it needed to be manually resume after being disables.
you need to implement another approach of "Priority Group Activation" That's fit your Solution.
K13525153: Configure a standby pool member to process traffic when primary pool member goes down Refer to this and you would get it all -> https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K13525153
So if i understand your issue is fail back not fail over.
What i believe is happening is that when you bring the "active" node back online (so both are now green) traffic is still on the "backup" node. Now i believe the behaviour here is that the active node should start taking on new traffic, but existing traffic will stay on your existing live node so in this case the backup node until the connection is broken or timed out. If you want the backup node to stop processing traffic, you need to find a clean way of closing the connections so they are remade at the f5 from the client. This will depend on your application but this might not be too graceful.
You could try putting the backup node into disabled or offline modes to help with this process but if the application doesn't open and close ports regularily this may not help you. So you'll be back to working out a way that you can close the connections on the backup server so they are remade on the active server. It would be worth testing this with your application if you have that option.
@M_Saeedthis is allready configured and works. Sorry i didnt mention it.
The Problem is if the active part of the HA-Cluster lost the connection to the primary node, and the passive part doesnt, after a failover, the primary node is automaticly active again.
I have drawn a little picture, i hope this makes more clear what my problem is.
@mwi Can you take a moment to explain the situation in a different way because I am not understanding what you mean even after looking at your diagram.
We have a HA-Cluster with two F5 Loadbalancer (LB1 and LB2), on this cluster is an pool with two nodes (primary and secondary), primary node hast configured manual resume, secondary not.
This all works as intended.
Problem is if LB1 is the active member of the cluster and lost network connection to primary node and LB2 doesent, it routes the traffic to secondary node. If now LB1 goes down (in example lost power) and LB2 is now the active clustermember, it routes traffic again to the primary node because it doesnt know that LB1 switched to the secondary node.
