Bug ID 726487: MCPD on secondary VIPRION or vCMP blades may restart after making a configuration change.

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5

Fixed In:
15.0.0, 14.1.0.6, 14.0.1.1, 13.1.1.4, 12.1.5

Opened: Jul 02, 2018

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

The MCPD daemon on secondary VIPRION or vCMP blades exits and restarts, logging errors similar to the following: -- err mcpd[11869]: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Node name /group1/5.5.5.5 encodes IP address 5.5.5.5%18 which differs from supplied address field 5.5.5.5. -- err mcpd[11869]: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Configuration from primary failed validation: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Node name /group1/5.5.5.5 encodes IP address 5.5.5.5%18 which differs from supplied address field 5.5.5.5... failed validation with error 17237812. Or: --- err mcpd[8320]: 0107003b:3: Pool member IP address (5.5.5.5%999) cannot be assigned to node (/group1/node1). The node already has IP address (5.5.5.5). --- err mcpd[8320]: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Configuration from primary failed validation: 0107003b:3: Pool member IP address (5.5.5.5%999) cannot be assigned to node (/group1/node1). The node already has IP address (5.5.5.5).... failed validation with error 17236027. Or: err mcpd[12620]: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Configuration from primary failed validation: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Invalid static route modification. A destination change from 172.25.0.1%500 to 172.25.0.1 is not supported... failed validation with error 17237812.

Impact

If the system is Active, traffic is disrupted as the secondary blades restart. The capacity of the system will be reduced until all blades are on-line again. Additionally, depending on the system configuration, the system may fail over to its peer (if one exists).

Conditions

This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met: -- VIPRION or vCMP platform with more than one blade. -- A partition with a non-default route domain. -- Either: + Creating a pool member in that partition while a configuration save is taking place at the same time (either system- or user-initiated). + Modifying a route in that partition while a configuration save is taking place at the same time (either system- or user-initiated).

Workaround

There is no workaround other than not to create pool members or modify routes from one client while saving configuration changes in another client. However, this does not help if the configuration save operation was system-initiated.

Fix Information

MCPD on secondary blades no longer restarts if a pool member is created or a route is modified in a partition that uses a non-default route domain at the same as the configuration is being saved.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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