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- crodriguezRet. Employee
What version of BIG-IP, please?
- RyannnnnnnnnAltocumulus
If you look in the GUI under Device Management -> Traffic Groups -> Your Traffic Group, Properties is the "Auto Failback" check-box enabled or disabled?
- Carlande_DesarmNimbostratushi Ryan, i ve not checked that... could you please elaborate on the difference and relationship between when it's enabled or disabled when referring to that kind of manual failover issue? Thanks
- crodriguezRet. EmployeeIf Auto Failback is enabled for the traffic group, after a failover event, the traffic group floats from the device that failed to the device that has taken over and is now active (the formerly standby device). When the device that failed comes back online again, the traffic group will automatically float back to it's "home" device, essentially causing another failover event from the perspective of connected clients. If Auto Failback is NOT enabled on the traffic group, then it will stay on whatever device it floats to on failover regardless of whether or not its "home" device is online again.
- Carlande_DesarmNimbostratusThanks all, so in this case, what is the f5 recommended best practice? Auto Failback enabled or disabled?
- Ryan_80361Cirrostratus
If you look in the GUI under Device Management -> Traffic Groups -> Your Traffic Group, Properties is the "Auto Failback" check-box enabled or disabled?
- Carlande_DesarmNimbostratushi Ryan, i ve not checked that... could you please elaborate on the difference and relationship between when it's enabled or disabled when referring to that kind of manual failover issue? Thanks
- crodriguezRet. EmployeeIf Auto Failback is enabled for the traffic group, after a failover event, the traffic group floats from the device that failed to the device that has taken over and is now active (the formerly standby device). When the device that failed comes back online again, the traffic group will automatically float back to it's "home" device, essentially causing another failover event from the perspective of connected clients. If Auto Failback is NOT enabled on the traffic group, then it will stay on whatever device it floats to on failover regardless of whether or not its "home" device is online again.
- Carlande_DesarmNimbostratusThanks all, so in this case, what is the f5 recommended best practice? Auto Failback enabled or disabled?
- Steve_LyonsRet. Employee
FYI...The Force to Standby feature should not be used when the HA group feature is enabled. Hope this helps.
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/500/sol14515.html