Bug ID 987345: Disabling periodic-refresh-log has no effect

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(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, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2

Fixed In:
16.1.0, 15.1.4.1

Opened: Jan 27, 2021

Severity: 5-Cosmetic

Symptoms

Port Block Allocation (PBA) periodic-refresh-log set to '0' - disabled is not honored. You might see messages similar to the following logged in /var/log/ltm or sent to remote logging destinations: info tmm[6215]: 23003168 "Port Block Periodic Log","10.10.10.10","0","","10.10.10.10","0","1024","1031","16164968240","","unknown".

Impact

System provides unnecessary, excessive logging.

Conditions

PBA periodic-refresh-log set to '0'.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Port Block Allocation (PBA) periodic-refresh-log set to '0' - disabled is now honored."Port Block Periodic Log" messages are no longer logged with this configuration setting.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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