Bug ID 1857473: A BIG-IP monitor may not get removed when changing product type from BIG-IP to Generic Host

Last Modified: Oct 15, 2025

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

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2, 17.1.3

Opened: Mar 19, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

A BIG-IP monitor may not get removed when changing product type from BIG-IP to Generic Host.

Impact

The BIG-IP monitor is not removed. Running 'tmsh load sys config gtm-only' will then fail because validation will not permit a server of type generic-host with a monitor of type /Common/bigip

Conditions

- A generic-host is added to the GTM config as type BIG-IP. - The User then manually changes the product-type to generic-host

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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