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cebeci_259856
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Oct 04, 2016

Creating Duplicate Virtual Servers with different destination adresses

Hello all, Our organization has started using a new IP space and I need to create a copy of our existing VSs with the new corresponding destination address. We are going to keep the old servers for a while, I will create a new partition and copy the virtual servers to new partition. Is it possible to copy-edit and paste the virtual server configuration using bigip.conf file? Should I edit the /config/bigip.conf file or the bigip.conf file under new partition folder? What is your recommended course of action

 

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  • Hannes_Rapp's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp
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    Oct 04, 2016

    Hello,

    You can use these steps for the task at hand

     Write all Virtual Server configuration to a temp file
(bash)  tmsh list ltm virtual >> /var/tmp/vs.txt

 Open the output file for modification in Vi
(bash)  vi /var/tmp/vs.txt

 Modify the VS configuration file in Vi (Search & Replace)
(vi)  :%s/destination 99.99.99/destination 88.88.88
(vi)  :wq

Sample above is assuming that all your virtual servers are currently in 99.99.99.*, and the new desired address is 88.88.88.* where the last octet value is retained

 Append new configuration to the existing
(bash)  tmsh load sys config merge file /var/tmp/vs.txt