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Jason_Antman_40
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Oct 16, 2014

Query / Monitor last failover time

Hello,   I have a pair of LTMs that were toggling active-standby-active. We've resolved the issue, but I'd like to detect this in the future.   Is there any way to programmaitcally (i.e. someth...
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R_Eastman_13667
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Create an external monitor and check/grep the /var/log/ltm for "standby for traffic group" and "active for traffic group" or "stop racoon" and "start racoon"

 

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Jason_Antman_40
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Oct 16, 2014
"So far the only thing I've been able to come up with is looking in /var/log/ltm, which is a pretty expensive operation given that we have a LOT of iRule logging going there."