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Landono
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Oct 01, 2013

Updating Firmware on BIg IP LTM Machines From Command Line

I have eight LTM boxes I need to update from 11.2 to 11.4.1. Currently these machines are in different datacenters, which all have gigabit pipes into them. From what I've seen so far, the only way to...
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Oct 04, 2013

We were able to do this over command line using scp and a few tmsh commands. I'm posting our procedure here so that others can use it if they find this. While F5 documents this well, each part is in a different document, so I'm combining all steps here.

 

To copy the iso image over: scp Big-IP-Firmware.iso user@x.x.x.x:/shared/images

 

To install new image: tmsh install sys software image BIGIP-11.4.1.608.0.iso volume HD1.3

 

To see status of software install: tmsh show sys software

 

Once image is installed, select it as the preferred boot device: switchboot -b HD1.3

 

Reboot machine into new image: reboot