Bug ID 2225173: HA Failover does not happen when a tenant's Active controller is pulled out and one or more blades goes offline

Last Modified: Mar 21, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 17.1.3.1

Opened: Feb 17, 2026

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

In an extremely rare scenario where one or more blade goes offline when the active system controller of the tenant is pulled out, there is no corresponding drop in HA score on the tenant and failover does not occur.

Impact

1) No tenant failover happens though the number of working trunk members went down

Conditions

1) Active controller on the tenant is pulled out 2) One or more blades go offline erroneously after this 3) HA group on the tenant is configured with F5OS_INTERNAL trunk component with an appropriate weight

Workaround

In this condition, restart sod by using the below command bigstart restart sod

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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