vCMP Guests - Traffic Group shows "Initializing / Not Synced"

Hi,

Try to execute save /sys config partitions all and then see if the Next Active Device is synced..This problem occurs if we have nodes or objects mismatch in either of the sync devices.. or Are the devices rebooted after hotfix HF9?

I didn't explain it well to start with. I have vCMP guests that are peers on two different Viprions. They were running fine with 11.3 HF5 but with the upgrade to 11.3 HF9 they appear to be ok (I can sync the configs) but the traffic group has a status of "Initializing / Not Synced."

To both of the guests I have saved the config:

tmsh: save sys config partitions all

When navigating to Device Management -> Traffic Groups, the "Next Active Device" field still says, "Initializing / Not Synced."

I haven't done a comparison of the objects through the config file to know if there are objects that haven't been synchronised across peers but a glance through the GUI seems ok.

Thanks, hari. I worked all the way through Sol13946, the doc that you referenced above, and right at the bottom was the if-all-else-fails reset trust. So I did. I had to add the peer into the failover group since it had lost trust and then I resynced the boxes and it’s happy again. Thank you for your help.

Timothy

Same exact thing happened to me on a 11.6.0 upgrade. Nothing in the above thread has addressed this. Resetting device trust has no effect other than both Ltms go active until the traffic and device groups are rebuilt

Same problem here.....

Someone got any news from F5 Support about this situation?

More info; the result of a "tmsh show /cm traffic-group traffic-group-1 auto-failback-enabled" run on each LTM.

TLDR--The active LTM does not see the standby LTM as being online. The standby LTM does view the Active LTM correctly

Active config tmsh show /cm traffic-group traffic-group-1

CM::Traffic-Group traffic-group-1 standbyF5.net.unc.edu offline false traffic-group-1 ActiveF5.net.unc.edu active false

Standby config tmsh show /cm traffic-group traffic-group-1

traffic-group-1 standbyF5.net.unc.edu standby true traffic-group-1 ActiveF5.net.unc.edu active false

Both LTMs are synced, but on the Primary LTM the traffic group lists only the Active LTM--as "current device"

Underneath that is "Next Active DeviceInitializing / Not Synced"

Essentially, the active F5 does not see the standby as being in its traffic group, even though both appear in the HA order box, even though the standby does sees the active. The gui on each is exactly the same, save that on the standby, the correct ltm name appears as "Next Active Device"

Testing this on a virtual pair with no traffic, and I found that if I force the primary to standby, 1. The previous standby LTM will go Active 2. Then the originally active LTM goes active AGAIN 3. And the previous standby LTM falls back to standby.

So the standby LTM behaves as it should, but as far as the primary is concerned, it is the only active ltm in the traffic group. Auto-failback is NOT enabled on either LTM.

I just upgraded three pairs of virtual LTMs from 11.4.1 to 11.6.0 on our Viprions, and each pair has the same exact problem. Also, each of the Active LTMS with the issue are hosted on the same Viprion chassis, so there may be an issue on the chassis itself forcing the behaviour, but I am damned if I can figure out what it would be.