Bug ID 456384: alertd is coring on 2 very long syslog messages

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.4.1 HF9

Opened: Apr 09, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K16400

Symptoms

alertd cores sometimes.

Impact

This issue causes alertd to restart. At the alertd stopping time, no SNMP traps will be sent.

Conditions

When a pool associated with a lot of monitors and it goes down, a very long syslog message will be logged. This could cause alertd to core. The syslog messages should be with the following error code. 01070640:5 01070638:5

Workaround

This issue has no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

An issue that made alertd core on 2 long syslog messages is now fixed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips