Bug ID 1587897: Repeated toggling of the failover-method for an HA group from ha-order to ha-score may result in an unexpected failover.

Last Modified: Sep 15, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(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, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2, 16.1.6, 16.1.6.1, 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, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2, 17.1.3, 17.1.3.1, 17.1.3.2, 17.1.3.4, 17.1.3.5, 17.5.0, 17.5.1, 17.5.1.2, 17.5.1.3, 17.5.1.4, 17.5.1.5, 17.5.1.6, 17.5.1.8, 17.5.1.9, 21.1.0, 21.1.0.1, 21.1.0.2

Opened: May 22, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

An unexpected failover caused by an HA monitor fault may occur on a BIG-IP HA pair.

Impact

An unexpected failover may occur when the failover-method is repeatedly toggled between ha-order and ha-score.

Conditions

Continuously toggle the failover-method for a traffic group between ha-order and ha-score: tmsh modify cm traffic-group traffic-group-1 monitor { ha-group none } failover-method ha-order

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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