Best practices for re-clustering a broken cluster?
Hopefully, this is the proper area to ask this, and if not, please let me know where it should be posted.
I have inherited a pair of 3900 LTM's that had apparently, at one time, been clustered. Both units are at different software versions: 11.1.0 HF2, and 11.2.1 HF7. One of the units shows that it is standalone, and the other shows as disconnected beneath the Online (Active) indicator at the top-left side of the management gui. Both have differing virtual servers, certificates, profiles, etc... I have been tasked with re-joining them together as a cluster.
I am still fairly green with the more advanced topics on F5's, and would like to know if anyone can suggest a course of action for rejoining them together. I am very familiar with the underlying concepts and technology, but need to know do I need to mirror the profiles, certs et al, or can I consolidate the profiles, certs, networks and such on one, and then re-cluster them, after getting both a more current, matching software rev? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!