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wbbigdave_97776
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Feb 02, 2010

Archives and issues with upgrades.

Hey there!     I have had a problem with upgrading our BigIP Load Balancers. When we upgraded on of our redundant pairs it lost all of the configuration, save for a small amount in the comm...
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L4L7_53191
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Feb 03, 2010
Generally speaking, avoid spaces on any *nix system, which BigIP most certainly is. Use underscores, camel case, or whatever - just not spaces. Regarding the GUI I honestly don't know, as I've experienced errors with this type of thing myself: 

 
 01070088:3: The requested object name (test spaces) is invalid.

At any rate, as a best practice always, always avoid using spaces in names. It's just safer that way.

-Matt