Upgrade to BIP-IP V11.6.0 hanging

Damian,

What's the output of the following? Do they give any clues?

bigstart status mcpd bigstart status httpd

How about if you restart mcpd?

bigstart restart mcpd

Any errors in the following log files /var/log/httpd/httpd_errors or /var/log/ltm?

Finally, what about if you reload the configuration "tmsh load sys config"

Hope this helps give you more clues.

N

Hi Nathan,

I had a play - a tmsh load sys verify and saw this:

01070726:3: ClientSSL Profile /Common/clientssl-insecure-compatible in partition Common cannot reference ClientSSL CertKeyChain Entry /Common/clientssl-insecure-compatible default_default in partition Nova
Unexpected Error: Validating configuration process failed.

Looks like someone (not me, I promise!!) has modified the default clientssl profile with a (now non-existent) SSL cert / key pairing which prevented the config from loading. Not sure why it loaded into 11.4.1 and not 11.6.0. I edited bigip.conf to remove this section and it loaded successfully!

Cheers

Similar problem while upgrading from 11.4.1 to 11.6.0.

FIX: I had to renew license.

[root@xxx:INOPERATIVE:Disconnected] log  tail -f ltm           
<..>           
Jan 17 08:06:48 xxx err mcpd[6458]: 0107142f:3: Can't connect to CMI peer 10.255.254.43, TMM outbound listener not yet created
Jan 17 08:06:53 xxx notice mcpd[6458]: 01071431:5: Attempting to connect to CMI peer 10.255.254.43 port 6699

[root@xxx:INOPERATIVE:Disconnected] log  tmsh load sys config verify
Validating system configuration...
<..>
Validating configuration...
     /config/bigip_base.conf
     /config/bigip_user.conf
     /config/bigip.conf
     /config/bigip_script.conf
01070356:3: Load balancing feature not licensed.
Unexpected Error: Validating configuration process failed.

The configuration load issue sounds like this: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/16000/900/sol16996.html

The HA errors you were seeing were probably related to the configuration not being able to load but I wouldn't expect all HA features to work properly between different versions.