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Michael_Hunzike
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Feb 15, 2005

4.5 to 9.04 irule conversion utility

My friendly neighborhood F5 sales folk indicated a conversion utility exists to convert 4.5 irules to 9.x TCL format. I was told it should work with simple rules. Anyone here know about this utility a...
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Paul_127893
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Feb 15, 2005
He was referring to the OTCU program (One Time Conversion Utility), which, on a clean, freshly installed 9.0.x system, will convert a 4.5PTF04 or higher 4.5 configuration to a 9.0 configuration, including irules. In some instances, you may have to edit the resulting configuration in order to get it to load.

 

 

It requires that the 4.5 UCS be stored as /otcu.ucs and, again, should be run only on a clean, fresh installation. The release notes should give you further information.