Bug ID 555156: Changing monitoring configuration stops health checks for FQDN nodes.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: Oct 29, 2015

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K10504493

Symptoms

When changing the monitoring configuration, the health checks never resume for FQDN node types.

Impact

No health checking. (member status remains static as prior to change). - Traffic may be sent to unavailable pool members.

Conditions

Create a custom monitor, apply it to an FQDN node type. Change the monitor configuration, and health checks never resume.

Workaround

Restart bigd to force the change using the following command: bigstart restart bigd

Fix Information

When changing the monitoring configuration, the health checks now resume for FQDN node types.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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