Forum Discussion
Feb 07, 2012
iControl, by default, doesn't flush the configuration to disk (ie, /config/bigip.conf, bigip_base.conf). The reason is as simple in that it takes too long. If you have a large configuration, saving to disk can take seconds and when you are trying to make numerous API method calls, a couple seconds between calls can be very painful.
When you are good with the changes you've made, you will have to call the System.ConfigSync.save_configuration() method to force a flush to disk.
-Joe