Enabling Load Balancing on live network

[Andrea_Hopkins]

Hi all,  I have 2 MG's connected to an MX unit and the site is currently live and working. i would now like to enable load balancing feature but I am unsure if this would cause any drops / outage for a brief time whilst the system reconverged.  Would anyone know if this would be the case?  Thanks for any advice. 

[CptnCrnch · Accepted solution]

Changes should be simultaneously, existing sessions should not be affected as the MX is a stateful device.

[FeliA]

Hello @Andrea_Hopkins,

As a general rule, it is normally recommended to make any dashboard configuration changes during downtime or in a maintenance window. If any unanticipated issues arise as a result of the change, it will not affect live production and can be reverted without significant impact. Additionally, if the changes are being made on a specific model device like the MX84, it is a known unresolved issue that a brief period of packet loss may occur when a configuration change is made on the appliance, as seen in the firmware change log below:

Best,
Feli

[Andrea_Hopkins]

Hi Feli, 

thank you very much for your advice.  As you stated, this is to be carried out during a specified window, i was just curious that was all. I did not, however, know about that unresolved bug regarding the MX 84 so thank you for sharing. 

kind regards, 

Andrea