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wowchens
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Aug 21, 2008

Export/Import Configuration

Hello Team: We are doing a big Data Center move and setting up the new place with latest and greatest stuff. On the same line, I got new LTMs with 9.3.1 firmware on them and now I am tasked with configuring them with all of the configuration from my old LTM which is 9.1.2. I tried export and import but since the VLANS are different its not letting me to do that. I am wondering is there a way we can directly edit the high level conf file.

 

 

All I am trying to do is make my life easier by not creating all the Virtual Servers, Profiles, Monitors and irules manually.

 

 

Any help you can offer would be great.

 

 

Thanks--Chenna
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    dennypayne
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    Aug 21, 2008
    You can in some instances edit the bigip.conf and bigip_base.conf file directly to alter small differences in syntax/VLANs/interfaces. However, there is enough stuff going on "behind the scenes" that it could get ugly if everything is not in place (this is particularly true if you upgrade to 9.4 but that doesn't apply here).

     

     

    What might be easier would be to save the config on your 9.1.2 boxes (b config save /config.ucs), and then perform an upgrade to 9.3.1 on the other disk partition (the one that 9.1.2 is not booting from), and rolling forward the 9.1.2 config file during the upgrade. Then you will have a 9.3.1 config file that you can transfer directly to the new units.

     

     

    Denny