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The liquid crystal display, or LCD panel, provides the ability to control theunit without attaching a serial or network cable. The following menus are available on the LCD panel.

Normally, the screens cycle on the LCD panel at a constant rate. However,press the Check button to toggle the LCD panel between Hold and Rotate modes. In Hold mode, a single screen is displayed. The Rotate mode changes the screen displayed on the LCD panel every four seconds.

Pressing theX button puts the LCD panel in Menu mode. The buttons Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Up Arrow, and Down Arrow are functional only when the LCD panel is in Menu mode.

After you put the LCD panel in menu mode, use the Left Arrow, RightArrow, Up Arrow, and Down Arrow buttons to select menu options. There are four menu options:

You can use the Information menu to access help pages about using theLCD panel functionality. You can also find more information on what different LED activity means, and on the failover state of the unit in a redundant system. Table 3.1 shows the options available on the Information menu.

Use the Check button to turn on (checked) or off(cleared) the heartbeat displayed on the LCD screen. This heartbeat displays if the SCCP is running on the system. This heartbeat does not affect the failover mechanism of the system.

This setting controls the brightness of the LCD panelwhen the backlight is off. Use the Left and Right arrow keys to set the brightness of the LCD panel.

Improperly turning off or restarting a BIG-IP 2000 or 4000 series platform using the LCD panel may result in the device remaining in power standby mode.

For example, if you press and hold the red X button on the LCD panel to put the device in power standby mode, and then immediately press the green Check button to turn on the device, the LCD panel will briefly indicate that the system is turning on. Instead, however, the system will revert to power standby mode.

This is the result of a known issue. When repeatedly pressing the left or right keypad button to change the information displayed on the LCD, you may notice the following anomalies:The new screen may include output from the previous screen. The extraneous output may consist of single characters or entire words. For example, the LCD may incorrectly display the word standalone at the bottom of the Memoryscreen.

BIG-IP systems exhibiting this behavior are not defective and do not require an RMA. This issue is software related and is caused by the lcdproc package.

F5 Product Development tracked this issue as ID 341952, and it was fixed in BIG-IP version 10.1.0. For information about upgrading, refer to the BIG-IP LTM, ASM, GTM, PSM, Link Controller, WebAccelerator or WAN Optimization release notes.

For example, to view the model name and platform type on a BIG-IP system with a host name of LTM1.example.com, an administrative username admin, and administrative password testing, type the following command:

Output of the tmsh list sys db lcd.showmenu command shows the value of the lcd.showmenu database key is set to enable even though the LCD displays Secure Mode.

F5 Product Development has assigned ID 970829 to this issue. F5 has confirmed that this issue exists in the products listed in the Applies to (see versions) box, located in the upper-right corner of this article. For information about releases, point releases, or hotfixes that resolve this issue, refer to the following table.

In some cases, you may want to remotely clear LCD warnings and the Alarm LED. Performing this action may prevent onsite personnel from discovering and reporting an old warning, or having to teach the onsite personnel how to clear the LCD. You can use the lcdwarn command line utility to control the LCD and the Alarm LED. To display its usage, run the lcdwarn command without any arguments.

To clear the Alarm LED, you must clear all LCD warnings at all alert levels (on all slots for VIPRION systems). To do so, perform the following single command appropriate for your BIG-IP platform:

If you run this command on a VIPRION system that has unpopulated blade slots, the system logs benign error messages to the/var/log/ltm file that appear similar to the following example:

Note: Running this command on legacy BIG-IP platforms that are not equipped with an LCD (such as the 1000, 2400, 5100, and 5110) only clear the Alarm LED.

The LCD panel displays the desired message, and the alert LED on the front panel of the BIG-IP system is solid yellow, unless a higher priority message is also being displayed.

Important: This article does not apply to F5OS platforms such as VELOS or rSeries. You cannot set the management IP address with the LCD screen on a VELOS system. For information on VELOS, refer to the platform administration guide for your system.

The management port on a BIG-IP system provides administrative access to the system out-of-band of the application traffic, which enables you to restrict administrative access to an internal secure network. You can display and configure the management IP address for the BIG-IP system using the Configuration utility, the command line, and the LCD panel.

You can configure the management IP address using the Configuration utility, tmsh, the configcommand, or the LCD panel. To do so, perform one of the following procedures.

If you encounter an issue that requires F5 Support assistance, you must locate the base registration key of the BIG-IP VE system and provide the last seven digits to the F5 Support representative. To display the registration key, refer to the following procedures:

Note: For information about finding the serial number or registration key of your other F5 products, refer to K917: Finding the serial number or registration key of your F5 device. The serial number can also be found in the sales order details, and it starts with the letter Z.

The LCD panel displays the desired message, and the alert LED on the front panel of the BIG-IP system is solid red, unless a higher priority message is also being displayed.

Important: You must have the serial number or the last seven digits of the registration key to open a service case with F5 Support. If you cannot provide either, your technician may be able to locate your system in the support entitlement database.

The serial number format is F5-XXXX-XXXX. The serial number begins with F5, followed by a dash character ( - ), followed by four alphanumeric characters, followed by a dash, followed by four alphanumeric characters.

A BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) system does not have a similar serial number format to the previously mentioned hardware platforms. If you encounter any issue that requires F5 Support assistance, you cannot use the BIG-IP VE serial number to open a support case. You must use the last seven digits of the BIG-IP VE registration key.

You can get the serial number of a BIG-IP platform or BIG-IP VE by polling the F5 BIG-IP-system management information base (MIB) object identifier (OID):sysGeneralChassisSerialNum or its numeric equivalent, .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.3.3.3.0.

If the license has not yet been activated on your BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP DNS, BIG-IP APM, BIG-IP ASM, BIG-IP PSM, or WebAccelerator system, you can find the registration key in the /config/RegKey.license file. This file is present only on factory-installed systems.

Note: F5 sends registration keys for Return Materials Authorization (RMA) devices in an email. For more information about the F5"s RMA process, refer to K12882: Overview of the F5 RMA process.

You can obtain additional license information, including whether your devices are covered under an active support contract, from the F5 Licensing Tools page. To do so perform the following procedure:

When the BIG-IP system attempts to update the system state on the LCD display during a failover event (for example, you see the Unit going activemessage).

The LCD on the BIG-IP system may not display updated system state messages. This issue usually corrects itself eventually, but to allow the LCD display to be updated immediately, perform the suggested workaround.

As a result of this issue, you may encounter one or more of the following symptoms:The LCD on your BIG-IP system may not display the following messages during a failover event:

F5 Product Development has assigned ID 561444 to this issue. F5 has confirmed that this issue exists in the products listed in the Applies to (see versions) box, located in the upper-right corner of this article. For information about releases or hotfixes that resolve this issue, refer to the following table:Type of FixFixes Introduced InRelated Articles

For this object, the Entryvalue is 172.16.1.111, the Componentvalue is ltm node, the Object-ID value is the name, example_node1, and the Property value is address.

Users already familiar with the BIG-IP system can use the manual configuration tables to configure the BIG-IP system for the HTTP implementation. These configuration tables only show the configuration objects and any non-default settings recommended by F5, and do not contain procedures on specifically how to configure those options in the Configuration utility. See Appendix A: Manual configuration table.

In the iApp, you can configure the system for your HTTP application with F5 recommended settings (Basic mode) which are a result of extensive testing and tuning with a wide variety of HTTP applications. Advanced mode allows configuring the BIG-IP system on a much more granular level, configuring specific options, or using your own pre-built profiles or iRules. Basic/Advanced "configuration mode" is independent from the Basic/Advanced list at the very top of the template which only toggles the Device and Traffic Group options

The iApp template can create profiles using the F5 recommended settings, or you can choose Do not use many of these profiles). F5 recommends using the profiles created by the iApp; however you also have the option of creating your own custom profile outside the iApp and selecting it from the list. The iApp gives the option of selecting the following profiles (some only in Advanced mode). Any profiles must be present on the system before you can select them in the iApp.

You can optionally use the BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM) module to help accelerate your HTTP traffic. To use BIG-IP AAM, it must be fully licensed and provisioned on your BIG-IP system. Consult your F5 sales representative for details. If you are using BIG-IP AAM, and want to use a custom Web Acceleration policy, it must have an Acceleration policy attached.

In Advanced mode, you have the option of attaching iRules you create to the virtual server created by the iApp. For more information on iRules, see https://devcentral.f5.com/irules. Any iRules you want to attach must be present on the system at the time you are running the iApp.

If you configured your BIG-IP system using a previous version of the f5.http iApp template, we strongly recommend you upgrade the iApp template to the most recent version.

In Basic configuration mode, options like load balancing method and parent profiles are all set automatically. The F5 recommended settings come as a result of extensive testing with web applications, so if you are unsure, choose Basic.

Select this option if client traffic is coming to this BIG-IP system from a remote BIG-IP system across a WAN. As mentioned in the introduction to this question, the iApp creates an iSession tunnel between this BIG-IP system and the BIG-IP system you will configure (or already have configured) on the other side of the WAN. If you select this option, you must have already initially configured the BIG-IP AAM for Symmetric Optimization. See the BIG-IP AAM documentation available on Ask F5 for specific instructions on configuring BIG-IP AAM for Symmetric Optimization.

Select this option if servers are across a WAN behind another BIG-IP system. As mentioned in the introduction to this question, the iApp creates an iSession tunnel between this BIG-IP system and the BIG-IP system you will configure (or already have configured) on the other side of the WAN. If you select this option, you must have already initially configured the BIG-IP AAM for Symmetric Optimization. See the BIG-IP AAM documentation available on Ask F5 for specific instructions on configuring BIG-IP AAM for Symmetric Optimization.

For information on SSL certificates on the BIG-IP system, see the online help or theManaging SSL Certificates for Local Trafficchapter in theConfiguration Guide for BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager available athttp://support.f5.com/kb/en-us.html.

Select whether you want the iApp to create the F5 recommended Server SSL profile, or if you want to choose a Server SSL profile you already created. In this scenario, the BIG-IP system is acting as an SSL client and by default, we assume the servers do not expect the BIG-IP system to present its client certificate on behalf of clients traversing the virtual server. If your servers expect the BIG-IP system to present a client certificate, you must create a custom Server SSL profile with the appropriate certificate and key. The default, F5 recommended Server SSL profile uses the serverssl parent profile. For information about the ciphers used in the Server SSL profile, see http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/800/sol8802.html.

Choose this method if you want the BIG-IP system to accept plain text from the clients and then encrypt it before sending it to the servers. Unless you have requirements for configuring specific Server SSL settings, we recommend allowing the iApp to create a new profile. To select a profile from the list, it must already be present on the BIG-IP system. Creating a custom profile is not a part of this template; see Local Traffic > Profiles > SSL > Server to create a Server SSL profile. To select any new profiles you create, you need to restart or reconfigure this template. The default, F5 recommended Server SSL profile uses the serversslparent profile. For information about the ciphers used in the Server SSL profile, see http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/800/sol8802.html.

This section gathers information about BIG-IP Application Security Manager if you want to use it to help protect your deployment. This section only appears if you have fully licensed and provisioned BIG-IP ASM. Contact your F5 sales representative for details.

Important If you are using an iApp version prior to v1.2.0rc4 only: In order to use BIG-IP ASM, you must have manually created a BIG-IP LTM Policy that includes ASM and applicable Rules. Creating an LTM policy is outside the scope of this guide. For specific information, see the Help tab or BIG-IP documentation.

Choose whether you want to use BIG-IP ASM to help secure this HTTP deployment. If you choose to use BIG-IP ASM, you must have a BIG-IP LTM policy with ASM enabled.

If you already created a BIG-IP ASM policy with ASM enabled for this implementation, select it from the list. Only LTM Policy objects with ASM enabled appear in the list. Continue with substep "b" following create a new ASM policy.

This section gathers information about BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager if you want to use it to protect the HTTP deployment. This section only appears if you have fully licensed and provisioned BIG-IP AFM. Contact your F5 sales representative for details. For information specific on BIG-IP AFM, see http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip-afm.html, and then select your version.

Choose whether you want to use BIG-IP AFM, F5"s network firewall, to secure this HTTP deployment. If you choose to use BIG-IP AFM, you can restrict access to the HTTP virtual server to a specific network or IP address. See the BIG-IP AFM documentation for specific details on configuring AFM.

The BIG-IP AFM uses an IP intelligence database to categorize IP addresses coming into the system. Choose what you want the system to do for sources that are attempting to access the HTTP virtual server with a low reputation score. For more information, see the BIG-IP AFM documentation. Important You must have an active IP Intelligence license for this feature to function. See https://f5.com/products/modules/ip-intelligence-services for information. See Troubleshooting for a mandatory modification to the configuration if you are using AFM and the IP Intelligence feature to restrict or log traffic with low reputation scores.

Select this option if you do not want to insert the X-WA-Info header. Typically F5 recommends not inserting the header unless instructed to do so by an F5 Technical Support Engineer.

Select this option if you want to insert the Standard header. For detailed information on the numeric codes used by the header, see http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/700/sol13798.html

OneConnect (connection pooling or multiplexing) improves server scalability by reducing load associated with concurrent connections and connection rate to HTTP servers. When enabled, the BIG-IP system maintains one connection to each HTTP server which is used to send requests from multiple clients. Unless you have requirements for configuring specific settings, we recommend allowing the iApp to create a new profile. F5 recommends the default profile which is optimized for most HTTP servers. Creating a custom profile is not a part of this template; see Local Traffic >> Profiles : Other : OneConnect to create a OneConnect profile. To select any new profiles you create, you need to restart or reconfigure this template.

Select whether you want the BIG-IP system to queue TCP requests. TCP request queuing provides the ability to queue connection requests that exceed the capacity of connections for a pool, as determined by the connection limit. Consequently, instead of dropping connection requests that exceed the capacity of a pool, TCP request queuing enables those connection requests to reside within a queue according to defined conditions until capacity becomes available. For more information on TCP Request Queuing, see the Preventing TCP Connection Requests From Being Dropped chapter in the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: Implementationsguide, available on AskF5.

In this section, you can add custom Local Traffic Policies to the HTTP deployment. BIG-IP local traffic policies comprise a prioritized list of rules that match conditions you define and run specific actions which direct traffic accordingly. For example, you might create a policy that determines whether a client is using a mobile device, and then redirects its requests to the applicable mobile web site"s URL. This template does not create any local traffic policies, you can only select policies you have already created outside the iApp template. For more information, see BIG-IP Local Traffic Management: Getting Started with Policiesavailable on AskF5.

Warning You cannot apply multiple policy rules referencing the same controls. Before applying one or more policies, ensure there are no policy rules with conflicting controls assigned. Note that improper use or misconfiguration of LTM policies can cause undesired results. We recommend verifying the impact of an LTM policy prior to deployment in a production environment. See the BIG-IP LTM documentation for complete details.

If you do not want to add any policies to the configuration, continue with the following section. If you have LTM policies you want to attach to the virtual server the iApp creates for your HTTP servers, from the Options box, click the name of the applicable policy(s) and then click the Add (<<) button to move them to the Selected box.

SAMPLE: tmsh - AUDIT - pid=13324 user=root query_partitions=all update_partition=Common module=(tmos)# status=[Command OK] cmd_data=list ltm virtual idnshare3-139

It is abnormal for SIGINT or SIGKILL to be sent to a process. If this message is seen in the logs, it indicates that a TMM process received the indicated signal. F5 Networks is not aware of any way this can occur, other than through the action of a root user at the bash shell prompt. Blocking access to the root ("Advanced") shell, or selecting Appliance Mode in the BIG-IP license should eliminate the possibility of seeing this message.

A virtual server is under high load such that the outstanding SYN cookie threshold is reached. The threshold is configured with the default-vs-syn-challenge-threshold LTM global-settings connection property.

A virtual server configured with traffic-matching-profile is under high load such that the outstanding SYN cookie threshold is reached. The threshold is configured with the default-vs-syn-challenge-threshold LTM global-settings connection property.

There is no workaround for this error. The algorithm stops when this error is written to /var/log/ltm. To mitigate this condition, a warning message is available in BIG-IP version 12.0, indicating that the port-find functionality is heavily loaded (statistically 80% to 90% of the 64k ports in use). You can use an SNMP trap to alert this message, and inform the client to add more virtual IP"s the system, relieving the heavily loaded connections.

This is an information message regarding hardware syncookie protection state on the BIG-IP device. it does not indicate any operation error. Refer to https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14813 for more information on detecting and mitigating DoS/DDoS attacks.

This is an information message regrading hardware syncookie protection state on the BIG-IP device. It is not an error message. Refer to https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14813 for more information on detecting and mitigating DoS/DDoS attacks.

Rate limit can be changed as described in Manual: Setting Connection Limits (https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-2-1/30.html).

Rate limit can be changed as described in Manual: Setting Connection Limits (https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-implementations-11-2-1/30.html).

All variants of the message are related to operations on externals datagroups (see ttps://devcentral.f5.com/articles/the101-irules-101-datagroups-amp-tables ). These operations are conducted by an administrator through a configuration interface (web GUI, tmsh CLI, or by script) and include datagroup creation, update, and deletion.

Reconfiguration is required. Don"t use FTPS with ASM. Refer to the following devcentral article: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/ftps-offload-via-irules

Occasionally seeing this message is not necessarily an issue, but might indicate that the TMM needs more available memory. Restarting the TMM might be sufficient to reduce the TMM"s memory usage, but the messages are likely to return if the TMM does not have enough memory. Methods to increase the memory available to the TMM include increasing the provisioning level of the LTM module, reducing the amount of traffic directed towards the BIG-IP system, and (on vCMP guests and VE) increasing the memory allocated to the BIG-IP system. TMM memory usage can be observed with the "tmstat" command.

Occasionally seeing this message is not necessarily an issue, but might indicate that the TMM needs more available memory. Restarting the TMM might be sufficient to reduce the TMM"s memory usage, but the messages are likely to return if the TMM does not have enough memory. Methods to increase the memory available to the TMM include increasing the provisioning level of the LTM module, reducing the amount of traffic directed towards the BIG-IP system, and upgrading the memory of the BIG-IP system. TMM memory usage can be observed with the "tmstat" command.

The new "LB::enable_decisionlog" iRule command has been executed on a virtual server. This command is intended to help F5 Engineering Services debug LTM load-balancing issues.

This message is for debugging LTM load-balancing issues, and does not need a workaround. It only appears when explicitly enabled. It is recommended that this feature only be enabled with the guidance of F5 Engineering Services.

For more information, see ID 841469: Application traffic may fail after an internal interface failure on a VIPRION system :: https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID841469.html.

No workaround necessary, as the feature is simply doing its job. However, the BIG-IP Administrator should review the status of the internal interfaces, and if one is suspected defective, contact F5 Support to obtain further assistance and/or organize a replacement.

For more information, see ID 841469: Application traffic may fail after an internal interface failure on a VIPRION system :: https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID841469.html.

For more information, please refer to: ID 841469: Application traffic may fail after an internal interface failure on a VIPRION system :: https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID841469.html.

No workaround necessary, as the feature is simply doing its job. However, the BIG-IP Administrator should review the status of the internal interfaces, and if one is suspected defective contact F5 Support to obtain further assistance and/or organize a replacement.

For more information, please refer to: ID 841469: Application traffic may fail after an internal interface failure on a VIPRION system :: https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID841469.html

(1) Simple user error. Attempt to create an object that shares the same name or identifier. For example, creating two pools with the name "poolA". A less obvious one is uniqueness constraints, for example ltm node"s address must be unique across all partitions.

The contents of /var/log/ltm may be viewed in the GUI under System > Logs > Local Traffic. These messages are of the form " feature not licensed." The list of items regularly increases with each release.

Directing the user to create or modify an LTM policy within the required validation conditions, in this case by specifying policy rules for the LTM policy.

If the user attempts to configure the tag-mode of a VLAN member to some other value, but "none" on platforms that do not support QinQ, the MCP validation rejects the configuration, and an error message is logged in the /var/log/ltm.

When the custom category url type is mentioned as regex type, you would see this message in /var/log/ltm. This regex type is not exposed in TMUI or GUI. This is only possible through programmatic internal access.

When the user attempts via tmsh to configure a VLAN tag which is greater than 4094, the MCP validation code rejects the configuration and an error message is logged at /var/log/ltm.

The special CA-bundle f5-ca-bundle.crt cannot be managed by the CA-bundle manager due to security reasons. It has to be updated manually, or by F5 official releases.

Specifically, the destination IP Address and/or Service Port are specified in the "run ltm monitor" command, when the destination IP Address and/or Service Port are already specified in the LTM health monitor configuration being tested.

Preventing conflicting destination IP Address and/or Service Port parameters from being specified in the tmsh "run ltm monitor" command helps ensure accuracy of the monitor test, and fidelity with actual behavior of the LTM health monitor as configured once assigned to an LTM node, pool member or pool.

When performing a test of an LTM monitor using the tmsh "run ltm monitor" command, only provide destination IP Address and/or Service Port parameters which are not already configured in the LTM health monitor being tested.

A monitor instance created internally for the purpose of executing the tmsh "run ltm monitor" command (to test LTM health monitor configuration) was found to be in an unexpected state.

Further diagnosis of the mcpd and bigd daemons is indicated, including enabling mcpd and bigd debug logging and repeating the LTM monitor test which encountered the error condition.

01071cf6 : The current provisioning does not support the TurboFlex profile. Please provision LTM first or choose another profile suggested on the help page.

TurboFlex profiles need certain provisioning to be configured. Different TurboFlex profiles have different requirements, but all of them can be configured when LTM is provisioned.

Provision LTM or other modules that support the chosen TurboFlex profile listed under the description of each profile. (The TMSH command is "show sys turboflex profile all field-fmt".)

In the object"s "multi-domain-location" property, specify the URL for the virtual server location behind which the SAML service provider is located. The location must contain the scheme and hostname only, for example, https://application.f5.com.

For the object"s "multi-domain-location" property, specify the URL for the virtual server location behind which the SAML service provider is located. The location must contain the "http" or "https" scheme and the hostname, for example, https://application.f5.com.

1) modify ltm profile analytics analytics ips-for-stat-collection add {172.29.54.1 172.29.54.2 172.29.54.3 172.29.54.4 172.29.54.5 172.29.54.6 172.29.54.7 172.29.54.8 172.29.54.9 172.29.54.10 172.29.54.11 172.29.54.12}

The external zone is not a descendant of the parent zone. (e.g. external zone: child.f5.com, parent: notf5.com). The parent name must be a suffix of the child name.

One or more faulty fans reduces the cooling capacity of the system, which can result in overheating issues. This log entry triggers the alarm LED to turn red and display an alert on the LCD.

Continued operation during these conditions can produce component failure or unexpected behavior. This log triggers a red LED alarm and displays an alert on the LCD.

Recommendation is to review SOL3667 at AskF5 where email notification configuration is described. Make sure there are valid "To" and "From" addresses configured.

This message occurs when a system administrator uses the command "lcdwarn -p emergency MESSAGE". In this case, the BIG-IP system logs the string "MESSAGE" and displays "MESSAGE" on the LCD pane, under priority "emergency".

This message occurs when a system administrator uses the command "lcdwarn -p critical MESSAGE". In this case, the BIG-IP system logs the string "MESSAGE" and displays "MESSAGE" on the LCD pane, under priority "critical".

This string is generated when an administrator uses the command "lcdwarn -p alert MESSAGE". In this case, the BIG-IP system logs the string "MESSAGE" and displays "MESSAGE" on the LCD panel under priority "alert".

This string is generated when an administrator uses the command "lcdwarn -p error MESSAGE". In this case, the BIG-IP system logs the string "MESSAGE" and displays "MESSAGE" on the LCD panel under priority "error".

This string is generated when an administrator uses the command "lcdwarn -p warning MESSAGE". In this case, the BIG-IP system logs the string "MESSAGE" and displays "MESSAGE" on the LCD panel under priority "warning".

An administrator has run the command "lcdwarn -p info MESSAGE". MESSAGE is the text string logged and displayed on the LCD panel under priority "info".

Inspect the /var/log/ltm file for additional errors and warnings and try to correlate the LACP messaging with another system that may be misconfigured or malfunctioning.

This error occurs whenever dossier fields like the MAC address, unique device ID (AOM ID) is empty. These fields can be empty if there is a manufacturing error, or if BMC (in case of BIG-IP iseries) or LOP (in case of BIG-IP 4000-series, 5000-series, 7000-series, 10000-series) is not responsive. The details as to which dossier field is unavailable can be seen in /var/log/ltm.

Without a valid dossier, one cannot license a BIG-IP system. Every time a dossier request is sent, this error will be displayed on the console and logged in /var/log/ltm.

The F5_API_COM interface is trying to extract information about the current version from the /VERSION file, the /proc/version file, or the Certificate-Request (CSR) file, but at least one of these files missing. (The certificate request file is usually a temporary file created in /config/ssl/ssl.csr with the file name f5-api-com.csr_.)

You can find more information in K52381445: DNS monitor state showing "no reply from big3d: timed out" :: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K52381445 and K15408: Troubleshooting BIG-IP DNS monitors :: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15408 .

The error message DNS Services request rate limiter engaged will appear in the /var/ltm log file when the DNS Services Requests Per Second license limit has been exceeded.

The message DNS Services request rate limiter disengaged will appear in the /var/log/ltm log file when Requests Per Second returns to within the licensed limit.

This error occurs due to an invalid or non-compliant HTTP chunking format, while parsing a chunked HTTP response and attempting to retrieve the chunk size. Possible conditions that trigger this error include a malformed HTTP response from the back-end web server, or a faulty LTM virtual server iRule that affects the HTTP response.

The connection limit can be set by modifying "connection-limit" for an ltm virtual-address, virtual, snat-translation, node, or pool members. A value of 0 indicates no limit.

1. The control used to suppress rule aborted messages is set to a non-default number greater than 1 (TBD see reference for ltm global-settings rule rule-aborted-log-ratio)

When a user sets the control referred to above to a number other than 1 (and presumably large), the number of log messages in /var/log/ltm is reduced, but this message is emitted whenever a sufficient number of aborted rule executions has occurred.

This message is logged when internal interfaces used to communicate with F5 internal high speed bridges transition from up to down in tmm and report to the master control process (mcp). This is not a spontaneous link failure, but a controlled action, when the tmm process is exiting.

Inspect the /var/log/ltm file for additional errors and warnings, and try to correlate the HAL messaging error with another system that might be misconfigured.

Inspect /var/log/ltm for additional details. This message is typically accompanied by several other log messages that specify the exact nature of the sensor alarm.

Inspect /var/log/ltm and /var/log/sel around the time of the message for any additional indications as to why the sensor might have encountered a problem.

If the unit can still be powered on, inspect /var/log/ltm and /var/log/sel around the time of the message for any additional indications as to why the power might be malfunctioning.

No workaround, this is an internal error. Look in /var/log/ltm or /var/tmp/mcpd.out for any indication of why the mcpd process stopped communicating or restarted.

This error rarely occurs. When it does occur, in some cases restarting bcm56xxd ("bigstart restart bcm56xx"), or rebooting the box, will resolve the issues. Otherwise, the error persists after a bcm56xxd restart or reboot, and if it affects production traffic, an SR should be submitted to the F5 support team.

An F5 optic is plugged into the wrong port on a platform that 1) uses F5 optics to validate the optical transceivers plugged into the external interfaces, and 2) supports this specific F5 optic.

On a platform that uses F5 optics to validate optics (currently a B4400 or an i15X000 Series platform), move the optic to a supported interface. For example, move a 100G optic to a 100G port, or a 40G optic to a 40G port. The optic will function.

The error message "Unsupported optic in interface %s." occurs when an optic that is unsupported on the respective platform is plugged into any of its front panel interfaces.

The error message "Optic %s in Interface %s: Unsupported on platform." is seen when an optic that is unsupported on the respective platform is plugged into any of its front panel interfaces.

1) Try another tcpdump session, using the "--f5" option and requesting debug from the same provider. This might reset it to an internally-consistent state again.

Feb 7 12:58:08 BIGIP-4CPU.f5net.com notice mcpd[6817]: 01070417:5: AUDIT - client tmsh, tmsh-pid-7955, user root - transaction #569947-2 - object 0 - modify { db_variable { db_variable_name "tcpdump.sslprovider" db_variable_value "disable" } } [Status=Command OK]

Feb 7 12:58:08 BIGIP-4CPU.f5net.com notice mcpd[6817]: 01070417:5: AUDIT - client tmsh, tmsh-pid-7955, user root - transaction #569947-2 - object 0 - modify { db_variable { db_variable_name "tcpdump.sslprovider" db_variable_value "disable" } } [Status=Command OK]

01420002 : SAMPLE: tmsh - AUDIT - pid=13324 user=root query_partitions=all update_partition=Common module=(tmos)# status=[Command OK] cmd_data=list ltm virtual idnshare3-139

The BIG-IP LTM system has received a Diameter request that has been seen once before. This happens when a routing loop exists in the Diameter network. This message is generated by the procedure outlined in RFC 6733 section 6.1.3.

"scriptd, initialization failed": Another scriptd process is running. This is an F5 bug, but one that does not affect system functionality. No action is required.

Refer to the text of the alert: is it a low or high alarm? Is it a transmit or receive alarm? The action to take for F5 branded optics (the following troubleshooting steps) depends on a condition derived from the two states (low/high and transmit/receive):

High (Alarm)/Transmit (Alarm): Hot swap extract and insert F5 Optics multiple times. Check to see if a link comes up without a DDM error after each insertion. If a problem persists, then it is a bad F5 Optic.

Low (Alarm)/Receive (Alarm): Verify F5 optics module with local loopback cable. Verify that the transmission power on the other end of the cable is correct. Recheck the optical link budget calculations. Clean the optical cables, connectors, and/or lens. For any receive problem, look at the transmitter to make sure it is okay and the correct protocol.

Refer to the text of the alert: is it a low or high alarm? Is it a transmit or receive alarm? The action to take for F5 branded optics (the following troubleshooting steps) depends on a condition derived from the two states (low/high and transmit/receive):

High (Alarm)/Transmit (Alarm): Hot swap extract and insert F5 Optics multiple times. Check to see if a link comes up without a DDM error after each insertion. If a problem persists, then it is a bad F5 Optic.

Low (Alarm)/Receive (Alarm): Verify F5 optics module with local loopback cable. Verify that the transmission power on the other end of the cable is correct. Recheck the optical link budget calculations. Clean the optical cables, connectors, and/or lens. For any receive problem, look at the transmitter to make sure it is okay and the correct protocol.

This error occurs when a TMM fails to execute an LTM policy action. This condition can occur when the TMM connection flow is aborted for unknown or unforeseen reasons (for example, out of memory or extreme load), and the related tear-down workflow transitions through a temporary stale state, while running LTM policy actions that involve the workflows being disposed.

This error often indicates a deeper problem, possibly affecting multiple subsystems within the TMM. In this instance, the execution of some LTM policy actions fail, and the underlying LTM traffic or connection cannot be shaped.

This is a debug message that is useful for debugging issues with an internal virtual server (IVS). If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.ivs.level to "debug" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.ivs.level below the "debug" level.

"Rest request failed: {"code":400,"message":"Duplicate item. Key already exists: name : auth-token-admin","originalRequestBody":"{\"uuid\":\"bc6a86e0-c285-46dd-9c77-d5ed85436f67\",\"user\":{\"link\":\"https://localhost/mgmt/shared/authz/users/admin\"},\"timeout\":300,\"address\":\"127.0.0.1\",\"generation\":1,\"lastUpdateMicros\":1401988953031700,\"kind\":\"shared:authz:tokens:authtokenitemstate\",\"selfLink\":\"https://localhost/mgmt/shared/authz/tokens/bc6a86e0-c285-46dd-9c77-d5ed85436f67\"}","referer":"/127.0.0.1:38280","restOperationId":145308,"errorStack":["java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Duplicate item. Key already exists: name : auth-token-admin","at com.f5.rest.common.RestCollectionWorker.onRequest(RestCollectionWorker.java:533)","at com.f5.rest.common.RestServer.trySendInProcess(RestServer.java:234)","at com.f5.rest.common.RestRequestSender.send(RestRequestSender.java:498)","at com.f5.rest.common.RestRequestSender.sendRequest(RestRequestSender.java:430)","at com.f5.rest.common.RestRequestSender.s"

Set log.mr.level to "notice" or above. Provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.mr.level below the "notice" level.

Make sure to set the system BigDB variable "log.mrsip.level" to "notice" or above, and provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the DB variable to a value below the "notice" level.

Check your configuration and system setup to see if misconfiguration or a network issue is preventing creation of the media flow. Examine the log file for other messages preceding this concerning the same flow. If you cannot discern the cause with the information in this and other log messages, provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.mrsip.level below the "notice" level.

Set log.mrsip.level to "notice" or above. Provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.mrsip.level below the "notice" level.

Set log.mrsip.level to "notice" or above. Provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.mrsip.level below the "notice" level.

Set log.mrsip.level to "notice" or above. Provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.mrsip.level below the "notice" level.

Set log.mrsip.level to "notice" or above. Provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.mrsip.level below the "notice" level.

This log event is written to assist with debugging. This notice-level log event is written to /var/log/ltm when a temporary user registration is create by MRF SIP ALG with SNAT logic.

This log event is written to assist with debugging. This notice-level log event is written to /var/log/ltm when a temporary user registration is updated by MRF SIP ALG with SNAT logic.

This is a log message generated by an iRulexLX Node.js plugin process that writes to stdout, using the Node.js console.log() API. The F5 sdmd daemon captures all stdout from the Node.js process, and logs it using the BIGIP_SDMD_SDMD_PLUGIN_LOG_MSG_INFO message.

A phone-home upload will not happen. This is informational data that is collected for statistics. By not sending this information (if it is indeed good data that exceeded 512k), the information will be lost. This impacts statistics collection by F5 only. Note that many systems do not send this either because they opted out or are not connected to the internet.

This call is currently only specific to installing the EULA in the /LICENSE.F5 file. If for some reason, this fails to have a selinux status set correctly, there will be warning messages in the secure logs.

The private key is not generated and communications with api.f5.com are not possible. This affects phonehome sending anonymous meta-data back to F5 and has no bearing on any other BIG-IP functionality.

Report the error to F5 customer support. Since calling OpenSSL code can be difficult to debug, this error can pinpoint where the code is failing. This can be helpful for F5 customer support diagnostics.

Contact F5 customer support and have a ticket generated. It is safe to ignore this error as it only concerns the creation of a private key to be used with phonehome.

No private key is generated. Communication with api.f5.com is not possible. There is no impact to the BIG-IP system for this private key not being generated. It"s part of the phone-home package that sends anonymous meta-data back to F5 for use by F5 personnel.

The creation of the OpenSSL private key fails. Communications via phonehome to F5 is not possible. This is not essential for BIG-IP operations and can be safely ignored.

Any program that uses f5-api-com interface will fail because it requires communications with the mcpd daemon to obtain current values of data base items.

Since the phonehome_upload program runs periodically, the upload for this period will be lost. The upload provides F5 with useful feedback information such as provisioning and hardware usage. There is no other impact.

You can ignore this message. The BIG-IP system is attempting to communicate with api.f5.com to send phonehome data and this falure is not important to the normal operations of the BIG-IP system.

Try again when mcpd is up and running, or delete the key and have a new one issued. The way to get a key issued is to re-run the license activation or enter a new registration base-key. The key is needed to communicate with api.f5.com and is needed to send feedback to F5 with non-private data. If the data is not sent, this does not affect the customer in any way.

The creation of the encrypted OpenSSL f5-api-com.key fails, and communications with api.f5.com make it impossible to send anonymous phonehome meta-data. The re-creation of the private key will be attempted during the next license activation. This is an internal error and not due to customer action.

Contact F5 customer support and request that they file a bug. The only other alternative is to try again, although most likely, this will not succeed.

The best action is to report this error to F5 customer support and ignore the fact the code failed. However, if you are an advanced user, you can try creating the .rnd file manually by redirecting bytes from /dev/urandom into the .rnd file. However, this is not recommended since this is what the program normally does and shouldn"t fail.

Report this error to F5 customer support. Most likely the cause is due to internal changes, such as using an incompatible OpenSSL library, or it is a programming error.

The call fails, and the failure prevents any data items from being saved in the bigip.config file. Therefore, subsequent reboots or upgrades are not able to use the data that was intended to be saved. This is true if the BIG-IP system saves an encrypted key object that requires a passphrase to be stored with it. Without the "save" succeeding, the key becomes useless. The save operation was required to produce keys and/or certificates to communicate with the api.f5.com server for use with phonehome.

During creation of a new encrypted key, the process of storing the key and its passphrase in mcpd has failed. The creation of the f5-api-com key has failed, and therefore no f5-api-com certificate is obtained. This should not happen in normal conditions.

Phonehome data is not sent; all attempts to send anonymous meta-data to F5 fail. This is not important for the customer as the data collected by F5 is for use by F5 only, such as for gathering statistics about versioning or provisioning and/or other meta-data.

The operation fails and the certificate is unusable. This is not a problem for users, as the data is informational only and is intended for F5 monitoring for gathering statistics about systems in general (for example, what versions are being used world-wide). The certificate is used to communicate with api.f5.com, that is, for phonehome transmission of meta-data. This transmission is not possible if the certificate is not stored in the mcpd cache. F5 will not obtain statistics from this BIG_IP system during this period. Note that this is an opt-out item and is of no consequence to the customer directly.

None. The certificate will be re-extracted on the next licensing re-activation and there is nothing critical about the failure. F5 will simply not obtain statistics from this BIGIP during this period.

If the cause cannot be determined, contact F5 Support and provide the complete log per their instructions. If it looks like a possible bug in BIG-IP, F5 will need a packet capture including all 3 connections (HTTP client, HTTP server, and ICAP server) for diagnosis. Providing this with your initial report will save time.

If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "notice" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "notice" level.

If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "informational" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "informational" level.

If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "informational" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "informational" level.

This is a notification that is useful for analysis of an ICAP transaction. If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "notice" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "notice" level.

This is a notification that is useful for analysis of an ICAP transaction. If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "informational" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "informational" level.

This is a notification that is useful for analysis of an ICAP transaction. If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "debug" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "debug" level.

This is a notification that is useful for analysis of an ICAP transaction. If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "debug" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "debug" level.

This is a notification that is useful for analysis of an ICAP transaction. If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "debug" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "debug" level.

This is a notification that is useful for analysis of an ICAP transaction. If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "debug" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "debug" level.

This is a notification that is useful for analysis of an ICAP transaction. If you were asked by F5 Support to set log.icap.level to "debug" or above, please provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.icap.level below the "debug" level.

Attempting to restart bigd may be successful if there is a transient issue. It is possible there is an internal network failure within the BIG-IP. Report to F5 Support and provide the complete log.

In case it is a transient issue, disable then enable the monitor the message is associated with; if it still fails, turn up the log level as high as "debug" by means of tmsh modify sys db log.tma.level value debug. If you cannot discern the cause with the error code, contact F5 Support and provide the complete log.

Set log.tma.level to "notice" or above. Provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.tma.level below the "notice" level.

Notification is useful for analysis of in-TMM monitoring activity. Set log.tma.level to "notice" or above. Provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If not requiring this level of logging, set the system DB variable log.tma.level below the "notice" level.

A debug message is useful for debugging issues with in-TMM monitoring. Set log.tma.level to "debug" or above; provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If not requiring this level of logging, set the system DB variable log.tma.level below the "notice" level.

In case it is a transient issue, disable then enable the monitor the message is associated with; If it still fails, try turning up the log level as high as "debug" by means of tmsh modify sys db log.tma.level value debug. The error code provides more detailed information; If the cause cannot be discerned, contact F5 Support and provide the complete log

A debug message is useful for debugging issues with in-TMM monitoring. Set log.tma.level to "debug" or above; provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.tma.level below the "debug" level.

A debug message that is useful for debugging issues with in-TMM monitoring. Set log.tma.level to "debug" or above; provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.tma.level below the "debug" level.

Set log.tma.level to "informational" or above; provide the qkview containing the log file to F5 for analysis. If this level of logging is not required, set the system DB variable log.tma.level below the "informational" level.

This was previously allowed which ended up putting the systems in an unsynchronized state but marked as "In Sync". For info, see Bug ID 593536: Device Group with incremental ConfigSync enabled might report "In Sync" when devices have differing configurations :: https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID593536.html.

Examine the error message to determine why nslcd failed to start. Also examine messages in /var/log/secure and /var/log/daemon.log, as these messages might indicate the problem. If necessary, modify the ldap configuration to correct the issue.

When deploying Datasafe protection of the APM logon page, the administrator has attempted to apply to an Internal virtual server a Service profile that is not of type "F5 Module".

An external data group is being modified in an unsupported way. For example, an external data group created with "tmsh create ltm data-group external dg ..." is being modified with "tmsh modify ltm data-group internal dg ...".

01b7007e:3: Privilege level (1000) is invalid for vendor (F5) in RADIUS Client (/Common/test_client): Host group (group1). Allowed levels: {0,20,40,80,100,300,350,400,450,480,500,510,700,800,810,850,900}

In the LTM profile FastL4 or Global DoS profile, the property "syncookie_whitelist" must be set to enabled when the property "syncookie-dsr_flow_reset_by" is set to "bigip" or "client" (but not to "none").