Bug ID 1121013: A blade enters a failed state and traffic across the chassis is disrupted.

Last Modified: Sep 26, 2022

Bug Tracker

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BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Opened: Jun 23, 2022
Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Traffic across the entire chassis will be disrupted. /var/log/ltm will show a message from clusterd such as "Marking slot <nr> SS_FAILED". In "tmsh show sys cluster", blade availability will be "unknown" and clusterd state will be "shutdown".

Impact

Traffic will not be forwarded across the entire chassis.

Conditions

-- A chassis platform. -- Clusterd heartbeats from a remote blade fail to arrive. This can happen for many reasons such as Linux kernel driver issues.

Workaround

Reboot the blade in the failed state.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change