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David_Jones_227
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Aug 25, 2016
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BIG-IQ and redundant LTM's

Just starting out with BIG-IQ 5.0 w/HF1. I've imported a redundant pair of LTM's (active/standby). We want to use BIG-IQ so that our NOC can take servers out of rotation from pools when requested b...
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    Kyle_Oliver_519
    Aug 29, 2016

    BIG-IQ will keep the configs in sync for both devices in the HA pair, so the answer is that they can edit either through BIG-IQ and BIG-IQ will keep the devices in sync.

     

    There is currently not a way to limit the view to only the active device.

     

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Kyle_Oliver
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BIG-IQ will keep the configs in sync for both devices in the HA pair, so the answer is that they can edit either through BIG-IQ and BIG-IQ will keep the devices in sync.

 

There is currently not a way to limit the view to only the active device.

 

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David_Jones_227
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Sep 13, 2016

One thing I noticed is that if I make a change directly on the Active ltm and hadn't synced the pair yet, then take a pool member out of service on the standby ltm, it does overwrite my changes on the active ltm. That could be a real problem if engineering is making changes and the NOC has to take a server out of rotation at the same time....