Symptoms

A reconfiguration or security application attaching to a VIP or a new security policy or other big config change followed by a traffic halting/resetting, a shrinking message in the bd.log followed by A BD crash.

Impact

Traffic halted, a failover and traffic resets. BD will startup with the updated configuration in place.

Conditions

Remote logger with "report anomalies" attached to the virtual, a session transaction attack is on-going and a configuration change of the session transaction configuration together with a custom header (for XFF) configuration. This can happen also when adding new web applications to existing virtual server or attaching existing web application to a virtual server while there is a session transaction attack on a virtual server.

Workaround

Don't add security policies or attach security policies to a virtual server or reconfigure security policy or change the session transaction configuration together with the custom header configuration while there is a session transaction attack going on a virtual that has remote logger attached.

Fix Information

A crash that happens upon a specific configuration change was fixed.

Behavior Change