Bug ID 1253449: After publishing, the draft LTM policy configuration might not be updated (intermittently) into the bigip.conf

Last Modified: Oct 04, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 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, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4

Opened: Feb 28, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Publishing LTM draft policy and "save config" operations are not atomic, hence there exists a race condition. When the latter happens first, then the issue is observed otherwise the LTM draft policy is successfully updated into the bigip.conf file.

Impact

Published LTM draft policies are reverted to the draft state.

Conditions

- Execute the command "tmsh load /sys config current-partition" or the existing system configuration is loaded from bigip.conf after publishing the draft LTM policy.

Workaround

Perform any of the below-mentioned steps immediately after successfully publishing an LTM draft policy: - Execute the command "tmsh save /sys config current-partition" on the BIG-IP shell. or Execute curl -sku $COLON_SEPARATED_USERNAME_PASSWORD https://$HOST/mgmt/tm/sys/config/ -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"command":"save"}' or Execute curl -sku $COLON_SEPARATED_USERNAME_PASSWORD https://$HOST/mgmt/tm/util/bash -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"command":"run", "utilCmdArgs":"-c \"tmsh save sys config current-partition\""}'

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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