Bug ID 811121: BIG-IQ cannot onboard BIG-IP VE devices when BIG-IQ HA failover happens

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Platform(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
7.0.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.0.2

Opened: Jul 30, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When the active BIG-IQ in a high availability (NA) configuration fails over to the standby BIG-IQ, onboarding tasks for new BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) devices fail with an error message: Failed to complete onboarding task: null: Unknown response format found. code: 500, message: empty. See log for details.

Impact

Onboarding BIG-IP VE task fails after BIG-IQ failover.

Conditions

-- After a BIG-IQ HA failover happens. -- Attempting to onboard BIG-IP VE devices.

Workaround

To work around this issue, login to the currently-active BIG-IQ through SSH and run the command: bigstart restart restnoded

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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