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bigipjr28_13978
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May 27, 2014

f5 enterprise manager fails to connect to LTMS

Hello, I have a handful of ltms that cant communicate with EM. There is about half that can talk to the the EM and half that cant. The LTMS are 11.4.1 and EM is 3.1.0. The EM talks to the LTMs fin...
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Jun 17, 2014

Come to find out (as it was my suspicion before) is that there was missing a management route on the ltms in question. I tried iptables but wouldn't work properly to add it. Had to add the routes in tmos.

 

few things to verify/check:

 

-issue ip route view output on the ltm shell cmd -netstat -nr - view routing tables -issue tmsh cmds tmsh list /sys management-route, and tmsh show /net route view output

 

This solution article guided me that helped resolved my issue.

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/200/sol13284.html

 

regards