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VRA 7.4 Manager Service Failover with F5

Fresh install of vra 7.4 distributed.  The manager service is installed on 2 servers (03 & 04).  Following the instructions from both https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.4/vrealize-automation-load-balancing.pdf​ and Enable Automatic Manager Service Failover​ everything looks right.

Over the weekend, the mgr servers were restarted.  When they came back up, both servers had the ManaferService running (as expected), but the VAMI showed both nodes as Passive.  I tried to to go to the healthcheck "https://03.blah.local/VMPSProvision" and "https://04.blah.local/VMPSProvision", but both got 404 errors with "Failed to connect to repository" in the log.

If I turn off the HealthCheck, and restart the service on both, one goes active, one goes passive. I can then turn on the Healthcheck and it shows the active one passing the healthcheck, and the passive one failing.  If I stop the service on the active server, the passive stays passive.  I then cannot restart the service without disabling the healthcheck.

I've even switched it to cold standby mode (manual failover) but with the healthcheck in place, I get the 404 error from VMPSProvision.

Thoughts?

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MikeNox
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Issue was that the customer used same pool for both web and mgr.  Separating the pools resolved the issue.

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Issue was that the customer used same pool for both web and mgr.  Separating the pools resolved the issue.

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