Bug ID 976517: Tmsh run sys failover standby with a device specified but no traffic group fails

Last Modified: Feb 14, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2

Opened: Dec 23, 2020

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

The tmsh run /sys failiover standby device <device> command fails and returns an error if no traffic-group is specified: Syntax Error: There is no failover device with a name (/Common/bigip2.localhost).

Impact

You are required to specify all the traffic groups you want to failover to a peer.

Conditions

Two or more BIG-IPs configured with high availability (HA)

Workaround

For each traffic group that you want to failover to a peer run the tmsh run /sys failover standby. For example if you want to fail over both traffic groups traffic-group-1 and traffic-group-2 to failover to bigip2.localhost, run the following: tmsh run /sys failover standby device bigip2.localhost traffic-group traffic-group-1 tmsh run /sys failover standby device bigip2.localhost traffic-group traffic-group-2 If you want the device to be standby for all traffic groups but you don't care what device takes over as active, run the following command (note there is no traffic-group nor device): tmsh run /sys failover standby

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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