Bug ID 1089345: BD crash when mcp is down, usually on startups

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Fixed In:
17.1.0, 16.1.4

Opened: Mar 23, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Bd crashes during system start-up when MCP is down for some reason, usually an mcpd crash. bd.log contains the following log message: Failed to connect to mcpd, sleep 5 secs and try to re-connect

Impact

System fails to start, it may successfully start after the crash happened or maybe several such crashes will happen.

Conditions

Mcpd crashed or down.

Workaround

Restarting the BIG-IP system usually helps. Determine why mcpd does not work.

Fix Information

Prevent a possible crash when bd exits due mcp not available.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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