Copying partial configuration from one F5 to another

When I need to transfer configuration settings from one device to another I use

tmsh

to grab the original config and then modify as necessary and use the command

tmsh load sys config from-terminal merge verify

to verify the config changes on the device and then run it without the

verify

to perform the merge. It's the fastest way I've found to copy config.

In your instance, with copying a lot of config settings, I would recommend grabbing the

bigip.conf

settings from the

F5 iRule Editor

(since it's easy to get from there), and then just grab the config pieces you need and remove the rest. Then you can just run the merge to update the config on the other device....

Biggest caveat here is that some things fail to copy if you don't have things like ssl certs already set up on the device... and customization files fail as well (you'll need to fix those objects after updating.)

Hope this helps.