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Gustavo_Lazarte
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Sep 08, 2009

Load balancer bigip fail

Hello,

 

 

earlier we tried to remove our primary BIG-IP 9.1.2 Build 40.6 to replace falied fans. We failed to the backup F5 and the sites were up and running. As soon as we turned off the primary big ip (it was on stnad by) the sites went down. It looks like the backup f5 put itself on stanby too.

 

 

Is there a way to disable this behavior?

 

 

Thanks
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  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    Sep 08, 2009
    It sounds like the standby unit somehow detected the presense of the Primary Unit. How is your failover set up? Is it serial or network?

     

     

    CB

     

  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Sep 08, 2009
    I'm guessing you'll need to open a case with F5 Support and give them full details of your network architecture and configuration. They'll probably ask for more information on why you thought the backup F5 seemed to be in standby. I don't think there is a way to keep a unit in standby if its peer unit is either powered off or not active.

     

     

    Aaron