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longyuan
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Aug 11, 2022

After the bigip upgrade, the device status is abnormal and the configuration cannot be loaded

My device version is bigip- 14.1.2.3, the upgraded version is 15.1.5.1, ASM and AVR modules are used, and now after switching from version 14 to version 15, the status of the device changes to "UNKNO...
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SalishSeaSecurity
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Aug 11, 2022

Did you re-activate your license before the upgrade?  This has happened to me when I neglected that step.

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    longyuan
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    Aug 12, 2022

    The license was not reactivated, the iso image was imported and installed, and then the switch was made, and no operation was performed on the license.

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      Hamish
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      Aug 12, 2022

      As said above check the validity dates on your license. Re-activivate it. Then try the load from the command line.

      If it fails, what's the error? What does it say in the logs? 

      There are seldom mysteries about a system not coming up. Clues should be liberally sprinkled through the logs and the console.