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A BIG-IP Administrator uses a device group to share the workload and needs to perform service on a BIG-IP device currently active for a traffic group. The administrator needs to enable the traffic gro
The correct answer is C. Select Traffic Group and then select Force to Standby. To manually move a traffic group from an active BIG-IP device to a standby device for service, an administrator should select the traffic group and choose the "Force to Standby" option.
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A BIG-IP Administrator uses a device group to share the workload and needs to perform service on a BIG-IP device currently active for a traffic group. The administrator needs to enable the traffic group to run on another BIG-IP device in the device group. What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?
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- ACreate a new Traffic Group and then fail to Standby Unit
- BSelect Traffic Group and then select Failover
- CSelect Traffic Group and then select Force to Standby
- DSelect Traffic Group on Primary Unit and then select Demote
How the community answered
(37 responses)- A5% (2)
- B19% (7)
- C70% (26)
- D5% (2)
Why each option
To manually move a traffic group from an active BIG-IP device to a standby device for service, an administrator should select the traffic group and choose the "Force to Standby" option.
Creating a new Traffic Group is unnecessary as the goal is to move an existing one; failing to a standby unit implies an existing traffic group.
"Failover" might trigger a failover, but "Force to Standby" is the more precise and controlled administrative action for a planned failover of a specific traffic group.
The "Force to Standby" action for a traffic group explicitly demotes the current active unit for that specific traffic group, causing it to fail over to another available standby unit in the device group. This is the correct procedure for an administrator to initiate a controlled failover for maintenance or workload redistribution.
"Demote" is not a standard or specific action for moving traffic groups in this context; "Force to Standby" is the correct terminology and action.
Concept tested: BIG-IP Traffic Group failover management
Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-1-0/big-ip-system-device-service-clustering-administration/managing-traffic-groups.html
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