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Christian_Moisa
Altocumulus
AltocumulusDowngrade gone wrong
Hello, F5 Hivemind! I recently tried to update to version 14 on our big IP in lab but had problems (licensing issues) and had to downgrade to 13.1.1.4. Now, the device I downgraded lost most of its c...
Dylan_375544
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusIt sounds like you might be saying it's in an HA pair. If it is, join it to the group and sync the other (still good device config) over to the mangled one.
If not, I imagine you should at least have a UCS backup somewhere... in which case refer to THIS article.
Hope that helps! If it does, please up-vote and select this answer, it would be greatly appreciated!
-Dylan
Christian_MoisaThanks for the answer but I tried to join it to the group but I lost all my vlan and interface config. I can connect to it with the GUI but when I try to sync it with the other it says "one or more devices are unreachable. Resolve any communication problems before attempting to sync". It seems I have to configure more before I can join the cluster...
- Dylan_375544
Well yes, if you don't have a UCS backup you will have to manually configure the interfaces, VLANs, DNS, NTP, and basic HA stuff to rejoin the group. After that at least syncing the group will get you all your main config back (VIPs, Pools etc.)
- Christian_Moisa
Ok, I will try that. Thanks.
- Dylan_375544
Let me know how it goes, or if you have more questions!
Please up-vote and select the answer if it was helpful.
Thanks! :D
- Christian_Moisa
I finally got it to work by deleting and recreating the group. Thanks for the help!
ps: No idea why but I can't upvote, just select the answer...
- Dylan_375544
Glad you got it working, thanks for the update!
Well, you can't up-vote your own question, but I believe you should be able to up-vote answers.
Have a good one!
-Dylan