Bug ID 542654: bigd may experience a heartbeat failure when tcp-half-open monitors are used

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.4, 11.0.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.6.1 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, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1

Fixed In:
11.5.4 HF2

Opened: Aug 31, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K52195938

Symptoms

bigd generates a core file and restarts. The system writes a message to /var/log/ltm that is similar to the following: notice sod[6504]: 01140029:5: HA daemon_heartbeat bigd fails action is restart.

Impact

bigd restarts and there is an interruption in monitoring.

Conditions

tcp-half-open monitors are in use.

Workaround

There is no workaround, but this has been seen extremely rarely.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips