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Aantat's avatar
Aantat
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Apr 07, 2023

BIQ-IQ questions

Hi team! I'm facing BIG-IQ for the first time and I have a couple question. Sorry for my english. 1. Do I have to Re-Discover and Re-Import configuration every time if I change config on BIG-IP devi...
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Nikoolayy1
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Apr 10, 2023

Also BIG-IQ should ignore the configuration that it does not understand when the F5 BIG-IP config is imported in the BIG-IQ like F5 ASM/APM guided configurations having iruleslx/fast templates but be carefull.

 

As Paulius mentioned some things like trunks can't be created on BIG-IQ but things like Declarative Onboarding (DO) can be used as an alternative.

 

Also BIG-IQ has a scripting feature that can be used to push some config to a BIG-IP:

 

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigiq-8-0-0/managing-big-ip-devices-from-big-iq/script-management.html