Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2
Fixed In:
16.1.0, 15.1.4.1, 14.1.4.5, 13.1.5
Opened: Apr 26, 2020 Severity: 3-Major
Ephemeral pool members may not be in the expected state if the corresponding FQDN template pool member is modified by one of several actions. For example: A. Ephemeral pool members may be missing from a pool in a partition other than Common, after reloading the configuration of that partition. B. Ephemeral pool members may not inherit the 'session' state from the corresponding FQDN template pool member if the FQDN template pool member is disabled (session == user-disabled), the config is synced between high availability (HA) members, and BIG-IP is restarted.
Impacts may include: - Missing ephemeral pool members, inability to pass traffic as expected. - Ephemeral pool members becoming enabled and receiving traffic when expected to be disabled.
Scenario A may occur when reloading the configuration of non-'Common' partition, e.g.: -- tmsh -c "cd /testpartition; load sys config current-partition" Scenario B may occur when an FQDN template pool member is disabled (session == user-disabled), the config is synced between HA members, and BIG-IP is restarted.
For scenario A, reload the entire configuration instead of just the individual partition. For scenario B, it may be possible to work around this issue by checking the status of ephemeral pool members after BIG-IP restart, and toggling the 'session' value between user-enabled and user-disabled.
FQDN ephemeral pool members now better reflect expected states after the corresponding FQDN template pool member is modified by one of several actions such as config load, config sync and BIG-IP restart.