Bug ID 429213: Some monitor types assigned to the same node IP:port in different Route Domains may collide and mark the object down.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6, 13.0.0, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1

Fixed In:
13.0.0 HF1

Opened: Aug 29, 2013

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K16069

Symptoms

A race condition may occur in which a monitor instance is killed abruptly if another copy of the same monitor attempts to check health of the same node IP:port in a different route domain. The killed monitor will then contribute to a monitoring timeout and potentially mark the node as down. This issue occurs because the PID file created to prevent duplicate monitoring of the same pool member is not sufficiently unique to distinguish between route domains. For example, SIP monitor named "sip_london" applied to pool members 1.2.3.4%100 and 1.2.3.4%200 would share the same PID file: /var/run/SIP__Common_sip_london.::ffff:1.2.3.40..5060.pid

Impact

Pool members may flap down/up.

Conditions

For health monitor types which execute outside of the bigd process (see list below), a health monitor profile is assigned to monitor 2 different nodes which have the same IP:port in different route domains. The affected monitor types include: Diameter IMAP LDAP NNTP POP3 Radius Radius Accounting RPC Scripted SIP SMB SMTP WAP

Workaround

To work around this, perform the following steps: 1. Create a duplicate copy of the monitor profile, and add the route domain to the name of the monitor profile. For example: ltm monitor radius /Common/radius_seattle_rd43 { default-from /Common/radius_seattle } 2. For nodes or pool members in that route domain, replace the old monitor profile with the new duplicate monitor profile.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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