Bug ID 492460: Virtual deletion failure possible when using sFlow

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.2 HF1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.6.0, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0, 12.0.0 HF3, 11.6.1, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.4.1 HF6

Opened: Nov 22, 2014

Severity: 1-Blocking

Related Article: K17320

Symptoms

Attempts to delete virtual server objects may fail when sFlow polling is in progress. This error message might occur intermittently when trying to delete a virtual server: 01070265:3: The Virtual Server (vs_name) cannot be deleted because it is in use by a sflow http data source (ds_name).

Impact

Users cannot delete virtual server objects when sFlow polling is in progress.

Conditions

This issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met: -- Your BIG-IP configuration contains one or more sFlow receivers that are actively polled. -- Your BIG-IP system contains a virtual server that references an HTTP profile. -- You attempt to delete the virtual server object.

Workaround

There is no workaround other than to remove attached HTTP profile that has sflow enabled before attempting to delete virtual server.

Fix Information

This error message no longer occurs when trying to delete a virtual and using sFlow: 01070265:3: The Virtual Server (vs_name) cannot be deleted because it is in use by a sflow http data source (ds_name).

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips