Bug ID 1757585: Unable to install a license on an AWS BIG-IP VE

Last Modified: Feb 28, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.10.6, 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, 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, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.5.0

Opened: Dec 03, 2024

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

- Dossier creation fails with the following errors in the BIG-IP VE LTM log file: err chmand[4610]: 012a0003:3: DossierReq exception: VirtDossier Service: Instance identity retrieval from the metadata failed. Check network connectivity to the instance metadata before retrying warning get_dossier[10914]: 012a0004:4: hal_request_dossier: request failed err get_dossier[10914]: 01170003:3: halGetDossier returned error (1): Dossier generation failed. - Installing a license from a BIG-IQ returns with an error similar to the following: Licensing failed Assignment of regkey pool license {license_pool_name} (License for XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXXX) to N.N.N.N ended with INSTALLATION_FAILED status and message: Failed to install license to device N.N.N.N (Not a valid F5 License)

Impact

- BIG-IP fails to generate a dossier and load a license - BIG-IQ is unable to re-license the VE

Conditions

Any of these license removal scenarios trigger the issue on a Single NIC (1nic) AWS BIG-IP VE : - Previous license has expired - License was revoked using iControl REST command "DELETE /tm/shared/licensing/registration" - License was revoked using BIG-IQ

Workaround

Fix by deleting and resetting IP routing. 1) tmsh delete net route default 2) bigstart restart dhclient Alternatively manually modify and fix ip route 1) ip route change default via <gateway> dev internal Where <gateway> is IP address seen in 'ip route' output for 'default'. Ex: for following, <gateway> is 172.31.0.1 # ip route default via 172.31.0.1 dev mgmt default via 172.31.0.1 dev mgmt proto none metric 4096 ...

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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