Bug ID 922665: The admd process is terminated by watchdog on some heavy load configuration process

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.4.1, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2

Fixed In:
16.1.0, 15.1.5, 14.1.4.5

Opened: Jul 01, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The watchdog process in the BIG-IP ASM monitors terminates the admd process.

Impact

Restart of admd daemon. The restarts may be continuous. No stress-based anomaly detection or behavioral statistics aggregation until admd restarts.

Conditions

On some heavy load configuration process, such as version upgrade.

Workaround

For the case of continuous restarts, a partial solution is to disable admd during busy periods such as upgrades. To do so, issue the following two commands, in sequence, after the upgrade is complete: bigstart stop admd bigstart start admd

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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