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smh008
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Jan 18, 2023

Create 500+ VIPs

I have a large number (500+) of VSs, pool, nodes, etc. that I need to create as part of a migration.  I have all the data in Excel which defines the object names, addresses, ports, etc.  What method(...
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smh008
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Jan 18, 2023

That's what I was thinking.

This will be F5 to F5, but the VLANs and naming conventions will be different so it's going to take a bit of massaging the config file.

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Paulius
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Jan 18, 2023

smh008 If you know what the conversion is you should be able to create a backup using the following and just do a find replace to the appropriate names. I don't believe the SCF file saves index numbers and all that so this might be the ideal route for you if you intend on configuring the entire device from scratch or even just pieces of the configuration. You would still create the file and use the merge command provided earlier.

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13408