Bug ID 596104: HA trunk unavailable for vCMP guest

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade, vCMP(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.2

Opened: May 26, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K84539934

Symptoms

If a vCMP guest is configured with a high availability (HA) trunk with a threshold value greater than 0, the HA trunk configuration fails with a message similar to the following: err mcpd[5926]: 01071569:3: Ha group ha_group threshold for trunk _your_trunk_name_here_ 1 is greater than the maximum number of members 0.

Impact

HA trunks do not work. You cannot upgrade the vCMP guest to an affected version of BIG-IP or load a configuration with an HA trunk configured with a threshold value greater than 0.

Conditions

This occurs when an HA trunk is configured a vCMP guest, with a threshold value greater than 0. This may occur by any of the following means: 1) Attempting to upgrade a guest to an affected version of BIG-IP, with an HA trunk configured with a threshold value greater than 0. The upgrade fails with the indicated error message. 2) Attempting to load a UCS from a guest with an HA trunk configured with a threshold value greater than 0. The UCS load fails with the indicated error message. 3) Creating an HA group and then attempting to modify the threshold value for the HA trunk. The modify command fails with the indicated error message.

Workaround

To allow the upgrade to succeed or the configuration to load, configure the HA trunk threshold to 0. Important! This disables the HA trunk feature.

Fix Information

HA trunks with a threshold value greater than 0 are supported on vCMP guests.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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