Symptoms

When running an evaluate and deploy for 10 devices, the system might stop responding causing the UI becomes non-functional. This is caused by too many objects loaded onto memory during the evaluation process.

Impact

This might cause failure during verify-config stage of the evaluation. The overall impact affects large and full (not partial) deployments.

Conditions

Running an evaluate and deploy process for 10 devices. Each has - 60 large ASM policies - 250 virtual-servers - 32GB RAM management console node.

Workaround

1. Conduct a partial deploy of the objects (ASM policies) you want to deploy to as many devices you wish, so long as the object count is less than 200. 2. Do a full deployment to maximum of 5 devices with similar configurations. 3. Using REST API, there's an option to skip the verify-config stage when starting an evaluation task. This will work if skipVerifyConfig:true is sent in the task body. This option is less recommended at the verify-config stage, but is important to verify features are deployable on the target devices.

Fix Information

None

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips