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mohit123_63342
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Jul 03, 2012

1600 LB serial access

Hi,     I am not able to take the serial console of BIG IP 1600 Load balancer.. i have set the baud rate as 19200 at putty. but some junk characters appear. and sometimes end up with a blue scre...
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Eric_St__John
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Jul 03, 2012
An RMA should not be necessary. If there was a previous configuration that is causing issues, you can create a USB bootable thumbdrive and re-image the appliance.

 

 

Creating a Bootable USB Thumbdrive:

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip_getting_started_guide_10_1_0/bip_gs_app_thumbdrive.html?sr=22475054

 

 

If you are on certain versions and the AoM baud rate does not match the baud rate of the appliance you can have issues:

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/800/sol10834.html?sr=22474114

 

 

Regards,

 

Eric