Bug ID 486323: The datasyncd process may keep restarting during the first 30 minutes following a hotfix installation

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM, FPS(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, 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

Opened: Oct 23, 2014

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K16817

Symptoms

After an installation of an 11.6.0 hotfix, the datasyncd process may keep restarting during 30 minutes. This is rare, but if it does happen, the system will remain offline during this time, until the state is automatically recovered.

Impact

During 30 minutes following the hotfix installation, the system remains offline and does not handle traffic.

Conditions

An 11.6.0 hotfix is being installed on a system that is already running 11.6.0, and has either ASM or FPS provisioned.

Workaround

This issue has no workaround at this time.

Fix Information

We corrected a rare scenario that caused a machine to remain offline for 30 minutes after an 11.6.0 hotfix installation.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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