Device OFFLINE ?

I will be having the access from management port?

 

i understand you are still able to connect to non-floating selfip.

 

What is the mean of OFFLINE in Device Management >> Device Tab

 

About device status

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-redundant-systems-config-11-1-0/2.html

 

Offline means it will not become active for any of the traffic groups.

 

The setting is helpful if you plan to break your device group i.e. by setting a new device name, changing the device cert or resetting the device trust.

 

If your device group runs unintended active/active it might be helpful to get a stable situtation by forcing one unit into offline mode:

 

tmsh run sys failover offline

 

Release after recovery by:

 

tmsh run sys failover online

 

The unit will still have self IPs up i.e. to monitor nodes / pool members or to be reachable for inband management. Out of band (mgmt port) is available as well.