Bug ID 1185133: ILX streaming plugins limited to MCP OIDs less than 10 million

Last Modified: Mar 30, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2

Fixed In:
17.1.0, 16.1.4, 15.1.9

Opened: Nov 02, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When trying to get started with iRules LX, every script attempted results in the following error: "Sep 16 11:16:26 pid[6958] streaming tm_register failed"

Impact

Unable to run iRules LX streaming plugins.

Conditions

MCP configuration (MCP OID's) should go beyond 10 million.

Workaround

The below command forces MCPD to load the configuration from the text file with an empty database, thus the OID counter is reset to 0. bigstart stop rm -f /var/db/mcpdb* bigstart start

Fix Information

The TMSTAT segment names are limited to 31 characters (not including terminating NUL). With 23 characters used by the constant portion, 8 characters are left for both OID and CPU. The CPU will be 1 or 2 characters, leaving 6 or 7 characters for the OID. When exceeded, the tmstat_create fails. tmplugin_nodejsplugin_1000000_0 err 0 tmplugin_nodejsplugin_10000000_0 err -1 Change the plugin class from "nodejsplugin" to "nodejs" or similar, to allow 6 more digits of OID space (allowing to 10 trillion).

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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