Bug ID 2162849: Removing the active controller does not trigger an immediate tenant failover

Last Modified: Apr 06, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
17.5.1.3

Fixed In:
21.0.0.1, 17.5.1.4

Opened: Nov 27, 2025

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

When a system controller is removed from a VELOS chassis, any Active BIG-IP tenants running from that controller do not automatically fail over.

Impact

Tenant failover is delayed by up to 4 minutes when an active system controller of the active tenant is pulled out .

Conditions

-- BIG-IP Tenant is active for a traffic group -- The BIG-IP tenant is running on a controller that is active for the partition on which the tenant is running -- The Active system controller is removed or powered off using AOM

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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