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TechT
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Apr 01, 2015

Active F5 device

We know we can configure LTM to be in Active/Standby or Active/Active mode.   My questions are : 1 ) Anyone knows how LTM determine the Unit is going to be Active of its own when we connected to ...
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Hannes_Rapp
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Apr 07, 2015
As far as I'm aware, at very core, the DB record value for 'failover.state' determines if unit is active or standby. To check the current value, issue 'tmsh list sys db failover.state' command. It's either "active" or "standby". I believe this value gets overwritten by the BigIP software, whether you forcefully set the unit to standby, or in case a system failure occurs.