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Richard_Parry_2
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Jan 11, 2016

F5 Big IP 8900 Series License Recovery

Hi All,   We have an F5 Big IP 8900 LTM which we purchased used a couple of years ago. It was running v11.3 and used primarily in our office lab environment for load testing servers we setup for c...
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Jan 12, 2016

Unfortunately I have nothing at all stored.

 

I did try the portal system, and it set through the info. But it sent a 8 character license code and not the full license code. I tried it on another F5 system we have here and it did the same.

 

The response for the 8900 LTM is;

 

Base Key for F5 Product BIG-IP v9.x for XXXXXXXX (I have blanked the code to the 8 character just in case)

 

From what I have read the format should be like this;

 

AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEEEE

 

So even if it were just the first section, I don't know why the code comes through as 8 digits, when the usual format is only 5 digits for the first part of the key.