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fcocquyt_104704
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Sep 11, 2013

Best approach to merge 2 F5 configs ?

Hello all,   I was wondering what the best approach is for merging the config from a BIG-IP cluster to another BIG-IP cluster. Both clusters are running BIG-IP 10.2.1 Build 511.0 Hotfix HF3 The ...
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StephanManthey
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Sep 11, 2013

It will be a couple of steps, if you cannot simply import a .ucs archive.

Importing a .ucs will replace all device specific settings of the target and I guess you want to avoid it, right?

So these are the required steps from my perspective:
  1. Export /config/ssl/ssl.key/ and /config/ssl/ssl.crt/ directories and import in target via scp
  2. Export external data groups from /var/class/ and import in target via scp

  3. Get a copy of /config/bigip.conf strip off all unnecessary lines and import on target via: 

    bigpipe merge

Now everything should show up in your running configuration and you can save it to startup configuration: 

bigpipe save