Bug ID 462903: TMM aborted by SOD due to heartbeat failure when trying to load huge firewall policies.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.2 HF1, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.6.0, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.4.1 HF6

Opened: May 17, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

TMM gets killed (aborted) by SOD daemon due to heartbeat failure. You might see a message in in /var/log/ltm similar to the following: notice sod[7291]: 01140029:5: HA daemon_heartbeat tmm fails action is go offline down links and restart.

Impact

TMM restart causing traffic disruption.

Conditions

Trying to load huge firewall policies.

Workaround

Disable TMM heartbeat.

Fix Information

TMM no longer gets killed by SOD due to heartbeat failure (when trying to load huge firewall policies).

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips