Bug ID 2034949: Authentication-mgr's restart triggers Controller Switchover

Last Modified: Aug 25, 2026

Affected Product(s):
F5OS F5OS-C(all modules)

Fixed In:
F5OS v2.0.0

Opened: Aug 20, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When the container is restarted using ‘docker restart authentication-mgr’, at times, controller failover occurs.

Impact

When authentication-mgr's container:running attribute is set to Unhealthy, even for a very short interval, In some of the instances, the parent components(Controller)are also updated to Unhealthy, which triggers a failover.

Conditions

When the container is restarted using ‘docker restart authentication-mgr’, the following container events take place: · container:event:kill · container:event:die · container:event:stop · container:event:start · container:event:restart. During this process, it's container:running attribute is temporarily set to Unhealthy | Error before the container starts.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

The value of parameter 'critical' for authentication-mgr is updated. This will not set the container:running attribute to Unhealthy | Error before the container starts.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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