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Steve_Albrecht
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Jul 21, 2017

Difference between External and Internal Data Groups

I am doing redirects for our CMS change and would be interested to know the difference between internal and external Data Groups. If i am needing to do >1000 redirects is one better to use than the ...
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Hannes_Rapp_162
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Jul 21, 2017

If performance is your main concern, go for string-type internal data group

To ease your work, take the source file, run some search & replace functions. Make it comply with format of internal data group as expressed in /config/bigip.conf file. Once ready, proceed by merging it to your config with 

tmsh load sys conf merge from-file /var/tmp/your-data-group.txt
. Create one dummy data group first if you need reference of compliant format.

Rgds,

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Hannes_Rapp_162
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Jul 21, 2017

If you need help with the actual conversion, upload the source file with all redirects to implement in txt format somewhere.

 

If needed, replace occurrences of your true hostname portion with something fictional