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b_136889
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Dec 11, 2013

Configuring Bigip LTM VE

Hi, How can I configure the Bigip LTM VE without logging into the system ? Like entering the license and configuring the ip address and all  
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Dec 12, 2013

Yes, you can boot via DHCP (version >=11.3) to get a management address on a VE. You can specify the IP address issued to any particular VE via standard MAC address reservation (eth0 on the VE) configured on your DHCP server.

 

From there, you can continue provisioning (licensing, module provisioning, creating VLANs, self IPs, etc) via iControl API calls or by scripted ssh tmsh commands.

 

Tell me a little more about what specific provisioning tasks you're looking to accomplish automatically and I'll be happy to help.

 

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b_136889
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Dec 12, 2013
thanks a lot for the help. Actually I am trying to automate the assigning of the management IP, Licensing thats all as of now. So that user can launch the VM and just start using it through the icontrol or rest apis and no need for him to manually config the IP and management ip to access the VM.