Bug ID 473200: Renaming a virtual server causes unexpected configuration load failure

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 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, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 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, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.5.2

Opened: Jul 26, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K15767

Symptoms

Manually renaming a virtual server causes unexpected configuration load failure.

Impact

Cannot reload configuration. The system posts the following error: 01020056:3: Error computing object status for virtual_server broken (old_virtual_server_name). Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed.

Conditions

This occurs when all the following conditions are met: -- The BIG-IP system configuration containing a virtual server that was renamed by editing bigip.conf manually -- The virtual server has an empty pool, or has a pool with pool members and a monitor.

Workaround

Note: Traffic may be temporarily disrupted while the updated configuration loads. Perform any one of the following: -- Remove the pool assignment from the virtual before renaming. -- Ensure the pool contains members before renaming. If the pool has a monitor, temporarily remove the monitor and add it back after renaming. To load the updated configuration, after renaming, issue 'bigstart restart'.

Fix Information

Manually editing the system configuration and renaming a virtual server with an empty pool no longer causes an unexpected error when reloading the configuration.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips