Manual Chapter : Troubleshooting an INOPERATIVE guest

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BIG-IP LTM

  • 17.1.1, 17.1.0, 17.0.0, 16.1.4, 16.1.3, 16.1.2, 16.1.1, 16.1.0, 16.0.1, 16.0.0, 15.1.8, 15.1.7, 15.1.6, 15.1.5, 15.1.4, 15.1.3, 15.1.2, 15.1.1, 15.1.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.0, 14.1.5, 14.1.4, 14.1.3, 14.1.2, 14.1.0, 14.0.1, 14.0.0, 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0

BIG-IP DNS

  • 17.1.1, 17.1.0, 17.0.0, 16.1.4, 16.1.3, 16.1.2, 16.1.1, 16.1.0, 16.0.1, 16.0.0, 15.1.8, 15.1.7, 15.1.6, 15.1.5, 15.1.4, 15.1.3, 15.1.2, 15.1.1, 15.1.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.0, 14.1.5, 14.1.4, 14.1.3, 14.1.2, 14.1.0, 14.0.1, 14.0.0, 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
Manual Chapter

Troubleshooting an INOPERATIVE guest

After you upgrade the vCMP host to another BIG-IP software version, a vCMP guest sometimes remains in an INOPERATIVE state. If you then open a console window on the guest, you might see the following messages logged to the log file
/var/log/ltm
:
01071038:5: Loading keys from the file. 012a0004:4: halStorageRead: unable to read storage on this platform. 01071029:5: Cannot open unit key store
To change the state of the guest to DEPLOYED, use the following procedure.
  1. On the vCMP host, activate the boot partition that was active prior to the BIG-IP software upgrade.
    For example, if the previously-active boot partition was HD1.1, you can run this command:
    switchboot HD1.1
    .
  2. Display the master key for the host by opening a console window on the host, and at the system prompt, typing the command
    f5mku -K
    .
    Here is sample output from the
    f5mku -K
    command:
    8/igZhCdlag5Z4rbuOpFtg==
  3. Activate the boot partition that contains the upgraded version of the BIG-IP software.
    For example, if the boot partition for the upgraded BIG-IP version is HD1.2, you can run this command again:
    switchboot HD1.2
    .
  4. Verify that the master key on the upgraded version is the same as the master key on the previous version (viewed in Step 2) by typing the command
    f5mku -K
    again.
  5. If the master key is not the same on both software versions, then update the master key on the upgraded version (in the newly-active partition):typing this command:
    f5mku -r
    master key
    • If you know the unencrypted password or passphrase, type this command:
      tmsh modify /sys master-key prompt-for-password
      . This is the recommended way to reset the master key.
    • If you only know the encrypted password or passphrase, type this command:
      f5mku -r
      master key
      . Use this command with caution. Using the
      -r
      option when the file
      /config/bigip.conf
      contains encrypted passwords or passphrases will cause a BIG-IP load operation to fail.
    For example:
    f5mku -r 8/igZhCdlag5Z4rbuOpFtg==
  6. At the system prompt, comment out the sym-unit-key of every guest by typing this command:
    sed -i.bak 's/sym-unit-key/#sym-unit-key/g' /config/bigip.conf
    This command edits the file /config/bigip.conf.
    A backup of this file is automatically created: /config/bigip.conf.bak
  7. At the system prompt on the host, load the host configuration by typing this command:
    tmsh load sys config
  8. Reboot the host by typing the command
    tmsh reboot
    Without a reboot, the changes will not take effect.
After the host has finished rebooting, all guests should boot normally.