Bug ID 451985: Enabling GTM sync on BIG-IP A might disable it on BIG-IP A.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.2 HF1, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.4.1 HF6

Opened: Mar 11, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Enabling GTM sync on BIG-IP A in a GTM Sync group (while it is already enabled on BIG-IP B in the sync group) disables it on BIG-IP B. synchronize-zone-files setting gets disabled as well.

Impact

The system sends the configuration timestamp before fully receiving all the configuration information. GTM sync and synchronize-zone-files setting gets disabled.

Conditions

The problem is caused by a timing issue when broadcast the new configuration timestamp.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

In this release, there is a delay sending the configuration timestamp until the end transaction message has been received. This fixes the problem with sync becoming disabled.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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