Bug ID 1318653: Upgrading or failover of APM with lot of access policies takes long time to become "really" active

Last Modified: Jul 24, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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

Opened: Jul 11, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When BIG-IP Administrator has lot of access policies, around 300 plus, after upgrade or failover a new unit becomes active. Users accessing one of the access policies experience error "(Your session could not be established. The session reference number: b0745df3. Access policy configuration has changed on gateway. Please login again to comply with new access policy configuration". Also, it takes lot of time, around 25 minutes for all the 347 access policies, to become really active.

Impact

BIG-IP administrator having BIG-IP with a large number of access policies will have to wait for a long time, during and upgrade or failover, for the system to become really active.

Conditions

After an upgrade or failover the snapshot creation process gets invoked. And while user accesses a virtual server with access policy whose snapshot is not yet created, errors occur mentioning failure in establishing the session.

Workaround

-No-

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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