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Wasfi_182818
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May 17, 2018

Can you view configuration changes before synchronising them to the standby device?

Hi;   If you have two Big-IP devices in a HA failover device group. One of them is active and the other one is on standby.   If you do some configuration work on the active device, can you view...
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Dan_Bowman
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May 17, 2018

You're asking if you can do a config-compare between active and standby devices before doing a sync right?

 

There's no way to do this on-box, however if you have BIG-IQ you can generate a UCS backup from each device and run a compare.

 

Without BIG-IQ you could manually extract the bigip.conf file from each device and use a basic text-comparison tool.