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CirrusBIG-IP | F5 LTM | Decomission
Hi All,
Hope all of you are doing well!
We have migrated application from old F5 to new F5. Now we want to decommission old F5.
Can you please help me with best practice/steps to decommission old F5.
Regards,
RaqS
AlexBCTCumulonimbus
Hey Raqs!
When you say decommission, do you mean gracefully remove it from the network of from a cluster? Or how to dispose of the device without loosing any data / leave any data behind?
RAQSThanks Alex for your reply. I am checking for Factory reset.
Regards,
RAQS
jaikumar_f5Noctilucent
Different org's have their own practices. Depending upon on how you plan to repurpose it, the process differs.
Either you can simply keep the network settings (mgmt, vlan, interfaces, gateway etc etc settings) intact & just delete the configuration (bigip.conf) or load a dummy config file. Or if you have no plans to reuse it for now, you can simply go with default factory reset - https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13127
And then when you intend to reuse it, you can follow your own onboarding process. There is no hard and fast rule on this.
- RAQS
Thanks JaiKumar for replying.
So when we restore it default setting then i can see we will have management access. But account password will be removed. So post that will be able to login with default username and password ?
Regards,
Raqs