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Gerald_Meese
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Nov 16, 2023

Copy over self IPs from several partitions

Hello, I'm preparing the migration of an active/standby cluster of 2 LTM devices to new virtual devices. Per F5 support case I cannot use an UCS migration due to different trunk settings on both si...
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SelfIP 01070978:3 partition merge
  • Lucas_Thompson's avatar
    Lucas_Thompson
    Nov 16, 2023

    I wonder if this is as simple as not setting a default route domain for your other partitions? Try to set that before the import, rather than modifying the IPs to put the route domain in with the %xxx syntax. You have to first define the route domain object (net route-domain), then set the partition to it.

     


    admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# create net route-domain rd_foo id 1234 vlans replace-all-with { con1 }
    admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# list auth partition foo all-properties
    auth partition foo {
    default-route-domain 0
    description none
    }
    admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify auth partition foo default-route-domain 1234
    admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# list auth partition foo all-properties
    auth partition foo {
    default-route-domain 1234
    description none
    }

     

     

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Lucas_Thompson
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Nov 16, 2023

I wonder if this is as simple as not setting a default route domain for your other partitions? Try to set that before the import, rather than modifying the IPs to put the route domain in with the %xxx syntax. You have to first define the route domain object (net route-domain), then set the partition to it.

 


admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# create net route-domain rd_foo id 1234 vlans replace-all-with { con1 }
admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# list auth partition foo all-properties
auth partition foo {
default-route-domain 0
description none
}
admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# modify auth partition foo default-route-domain 1234
admin@(west)(cfg-sync Standalone)(ModuleNotLicensed::Active)(/Common)(tmos)# list auth partition foo all-properties
auth partition foo {
default-route-domain 1234
description none
}

 

 

  • Gerald_Meese's avatar
    Gerald_Meese
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    Nov 17, 2023

    Hi Lucas,

    Thanks for your answer ! Actually the 3 partitions have their own route domain :

    auth partition Common {
        default-route-domain 0
        description "Repository for system objects and shared objects."
    }

    auth partition Partition1 {
        default-route-domain 1
        description none
    }

    auth partition Partition2 {
        default-route-domain 2
        description none
    }

    What is really strange is this : “I edited the Partition1-selfip.txt file and modified the IP to 10.160.10.118%1, the error for that entry has disappeared... but the SelfIP is not created (in any of the partitions) 😞”.

    Usually when preparing migrations I add SelfIP’s manually but this customer has +/- 150 (!) of them across 3 partitions ☹

    Have a good day,

    Gerald

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    Gerald_Meese
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    Nov 17, 2023

    I found the issue 🙂 when I use a concatenated command to move to Partition1 and run the import, it fails (silently) and stays in partition /Common :
    tmsh -c "cd /Partition1; load /sys config merge file Partition1-selfip.txt verify"

    When I do the same using 2 commands in sequence... it works like a charm 🙂

    Thanks for your help!!

    Gerald