ConfigSync OK? Upgrade from 10.0.1(HF3) to 10.2(HF1)

You can definitely have those 2 versions in a pair. In the interest of minimizing downtime, are you doing network failover or voltage cable?

I'm doing network failover

Unfortunately, I rebooted the backup and it didn't come up as nicely as expected. I cannot use RADIUS to authenticate against it and don't have a way in otherwise (that i can remember right now). The primary box says "Sync Recommended" but when I click that it gives me an error:

 

 

Checking configuration on local box and peer box...

 

Peer's IP address: 172.19.29.22

 

Error: The peer box is not a redundant pair.

 

BIGpipe parsing error:

 

01110034:3: This system needs to be a redundant pair and have a peer address specification.

 

 

Please help !

 

 

Thanks

 

Eric

Eric - did you switchboot before rebooting? It almost seems like your box loaded a different config...does the local admin account work?

Also...on your active unit, just re-confirm that it's set to be in a pair and that it has a peer management address defined.

I ended up having to call F5 Support because we missed doing the "reactivation" before upgrading.... Once that problem was solved, the two wouldn't peer or do a config sync. Unfortunately for us, we decided to complete the upgrade of the other F5 and bricked a harddrive, so now we're running on one F5 til we can get an RMA :-/ Oh well, we learned to reactivate before upgrading, that configsync doesn't really work between different codes, and don't change the baud rate via the LCD before an upgrade because the F5 chokes on anything but 19200 for some reason.

Eric - I totally spaced on the license upgrade too. That's one of my favorite things about having Enterprise Manager for doing upgrades...it lets me know that the device needs to be re-licensed first.

I'll have to look into that.... It was our first upgrade and we approached it Cisco-style, whoops! Thanks again for the tips