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rafaelbn_176840
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Jun 19, 2017
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Kill "Setup Wizard" from CLI

Hello guys!   On a fresh install of BIG-IP, when you first log into the GUI you're presented with the "Setup Wizard". I'm setting my BIG-IP up through CLI following KB13369.   Everything worked...
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  • Kevin_K_51432's avatar
    Kevin_K_51432
    Jun 19, 2017

    Greetings,

     

    This seems like a sys global-setting. I took a quick peek and noticed this:

     

    modify sys global-settings

     

    gui-setup

     

    Enables or disables the Setup utility in the browser-based Configuration utility. The default value is enabled. Note that when you configure a system using the command line interface, you should disable this option. Disabling the gui setup option of the system command allows your system administrators to use the browser-based Configuration utility without having to run the Setup Utility.

     

    Might do the trick, but I'm not sure the overall affect this might have. I'd be really sure to double-check your DSC settings if you use this and plan to have a high-availability configuration.

     

    Good luck!

     

    Kevin

     

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Kevin_K_51432
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Greetings,

 

This seems like a sys global-setting. I took a quick peek and noticed this:

 

modify sys global-settings

 

gui-setup

 

Enables or disables the Setup utility in the browser-based Configuration utility. The default value is enabled. Note that when you configure a system using the command line interface, you should disable this option. Disabling the gui setup option of the system command allows your system administrators to use the browser-based Configuration utility without having to run the Setup Utility.

 

Might do the trick, but I'm not sure the overall affect this might have. I'd be really sure to double-check your DSC settings if you use this and plan to have a high-availability configuration.

 

Good luck!

 

Kevin

 

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rafaelbn
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Jun 19, 2017

Kevin, that was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much. I needed this because some clients takes too long to provide a jump box with GUI capabilities. So we deploy everything from CLI. But when they finally login for the first time through GUI they get this "Setup Wizard" screen and just freakout or worse, they modify some of the configs and break some stuff. Cheers!