As choose the F5 BIG-IP device to Active?
Hi guys;
Good day, I am new to the F5 platform, so I have the question of how make the F5 to select the Master or Active device. This in a configuration of Active-standby redundancy.
I have the following:
BIG-IP01 ==> device currently in production and working properly. BIG-IP02 ==> Recently purchased device
All the parameters described in the guide was successful. In both devices. - Licensing and provisioning the BIG-IP system - Configuring a device certificate - Configuring the management port and administrative user accounts - Enabling ConfigSync and high availability - Configuring the internal network - Configuring the external network - Configuring the network for high availability - Configuring a ConfigSync address - Configuring failover and mirroring addresses - Discovering a peer device - Configure device group
But the problem is always the BIG-IP 02 is the one who puts as the active device and the BIG-IP01 is set as Standby. But that is not desired.
When the BIG-IP02 is placed as active at the time of arming redundancy, overwrites the configuration to BIG-IP01.
Therefore, the query is, that F5 takes to set parameters to a device as master or active.
Regards, John