Bug ID 558573: MCPD restart on secondary blade after updating Pool via GUI

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 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, 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, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.4.1 HF10

Opened: Nov 17, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K65352421

Symptoms

If you use the LTM GUI in a clustered environment to add an IP Encapsulation profile to a Pool, then click Update, mcpd and other daemons may restart on secondary blades in the cluster. When this occurs, errors similar to the following will be logging from the secondary blades: -- err mcpd[22537]: 01020036:3: The requested pool profile (49825) was not found. -- err mcpd[22537]: 01070734:3: Configuration error: Configuration from primary failed validation: 01020036:3: The requested pool profile (49825) was not found.

Impact

Daemon restarts, disruption of traffic passing on secondary blades.

Conditions

This problem may occur when operating BIG-IP in a clustered environment (VIPRION), and using the GUI to update the properties of an LTM pool with an IP Encapsulation profile defined.

Workaround

Perform pool updates via the tmsh command-line utility.

Fix Information

Pool profile update is performed by name rather than object ID, so MCPD no longer restarts on secondary blade after updating a pool using the GUI.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips