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NimbostratusASM Policy export and import
Chaps,
We are in the process of migrating out of a data centre to a new DC location. The migration is going very well at the moment but the next set of migrations include 10 ASM policies that also have to be moved from DC1 to the new DC location onto an existing LTM.
Both LTM's are runing on BIG-IP 10.2.0 Build 1755.1 Hotfix HF1.
Both have the ASM licensed.
My question:
Is there an easy way to export the current policies installed and import those policies into the new location LTM? The new location doesnt have any policies configured and for all intents and purposes is a newly installed LTM.
I see Aaron has a handy perl script to export but it doesnt include the version we are currently using.
Anyone done this before? Any caveats we should be aware of?
Pete
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Christophe_ThysWhen importing over an existing policy, it will actually rename the imported policy to _1 if I remember correctly. The previous policy will be moved to the inactive policies list. If you want to put the original policy name on the imported one, you need to rename the inactive policy, or delete it.
Mike_MaherYou can export it as an XML and then open that and rename the policy there then reimport it.
Kevin_Leicht_51I tried exporting as XML, but got the message that the policy was too big to export as XML. I ended up exporting the policy, creating a new blank policy with the name I wanted, and importing into that. It kept the name I wanted.
