Symptoms
After creating a new sync-failover device group without network failover enabled, both devices remain Active.
Impact
Both device in the HA pair will be Active, which is unlikely to pass traffic successfully.
Conditions
Create a new sync-failover device-group without enabling network failover.
Workaround
After adding the 2nd device to the sync-failover group, restart sod with "bigstart restart sod" on both devices.
Fix Information
After creating the sync-failover group with without network failover configured, but a serial failover cable installed, one of the devices becomes Standby and the other remains Active.