Bug ID 966545: MCPD cored during config syc when configuration has large numbers of access policies with macros

Last Modified: Oct 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1

Opened: Nov 22, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Mcpd is killed by SOD during config sync. In /var/log/ltm you see this log signature: notice sod[7174]: 01140041:5: Killing /usr/bin/mcpd pid 7180. warning sod[7174]: 01140029:4: HA daemon_heartbeat mcpd fails action is restart.

Impact

Mcpd consumes excessive time validating the configuration and is killed by the SOD daemon. Traffic disrupted while mcpd restarts.

Conditions

A config sync on a system containing a number of access policies (more than 1800).

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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