Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 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, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.2.1, 11.4.1, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 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, 12.1.0
Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.1, 11.6.1 HF2
Opened: May 03, 2016 Severity: 3-Major
After creating a new sync-failover device group without network failover enabled, both devices remain Active.
Both device in the HA pair will be Active, which is unlikely to pass traffic successfully.
Create a new sync-failover device-group without enabling network failover.
After adding the 2nd device to the sync-failover group, restart sod with "bigstart restart sod" on both devices.
After creating the sync-failover group with without network failover configured, but a serial failover cable installed, one of the devices becomes Standby and the other remains Active.