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wastanley2nd_38
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Apr 09, 2019

BIG-IP INOPERATIVE

Hi - I'm setting up a new big-ip in a virtual environment for lab purposes. While licensing, my browser briefly lost contact with the big-ip, but after regaining connectivity I had thought all was OK. After going thru the whole setup wizard, the box is unreachable other than via management interface. When I log in via the CLI, after authenticating I'm dropped off at a prompt which includes INOPERATIVE as part of the prompt. On the GUI, the interfaces are in a UNINITIALIZED state. Could someone point me in the right direction on how to (hopefully) get this get up and running ? It was to be my 2nd box, as I'm in the process of setting up an HA pair.

 

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  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Apr 09, 2019

    Look in the logs... They're in /var...

     

    ltm tmm

     

    etc...

     

    We'd be able to help more if you provided the relevant info of what's gone wrong... what's not starting... what do the various daemons log... Is there a config load error, etc

     

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    Hamish
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    Apr 09, 2019

    It could also be that you logged in BEFORE the config had finished loading and there is no error...

     

    The prompt isn't dynamic...

     

  • Mario6327_38923's avatar
    Mario6327_38923
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    Apr 27, 2019

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