Bug ID 456047: Explicit links lost after adding server IP addresses using GUI

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 11.0.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 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

Opened: Apr 07, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When using the web user interface to add server IP addresses to an existing Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) server, any existing server IP addresses that have an explicit link configured are lost.

Impact

If a link goes down, everything on the link goes down, so it is possible that unexpected resources will go down, if the GTM servers or virtual servers lose their explicitly defined links. Preliminary testing suggests that when these explicit links are lost, GTM might auto-match the server IP addresses (or virtual servers) to a different link, and this link might be different from the one the user explicitly configured.

Conditions

This occurs after adding a new IP address to the server. This can be examined by using tmsh to list the server and its associated explicit link.

Workaround

When configuring servers that are using explicit links, using tmsh (not the web UI) to edit the server properties, prevents explicit links from being erased.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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