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F5 Big IP File Locations
/config/bigip_base.conf
- The base configuration file is located here:
/config/bigip_sys.conf
- The system configuration file is located here:
/config/bigip.conf
- The LTM configuration file is located here:
/config/bigip_local.conf
- The (bigpipe) shell configuration file is located here:
/config/bigip/auth/pam.d/
- User authentication configuration files are located in the relevant directory under:
/var/local/ucs/
- User Configuration Set (UCS) files are located here:
/usr/libdata/configsync/cs.dat
- The file that controls what is included in a User Configuration Set (UCS) file is located here:
/var/local/scf/
- Single Configuration Files (SCF) are located here:
/etc/logrotate.conf
- The logrotate (log rotation) configuration file is located here:
/var/log/
/shared/log/
- The log files are located here:
/config/bigip.license
- The license file is located here: - this file should never be edited. A backup of this file is usually found here: /config/bigip.license.bak
/tmp/keys.out
- If you run the find_keys command it creates a file listing all license keys on the device here:
/config/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
- The device's own SSL key is located here:
/config/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
- The device's own SSL certificate is located here:
/config/failover/active
- Commands or scripts listed in this file: will be executed when the redundancy state becomes active.
/config/failover/standby
- Commands or scripts listed in this file: will be executed when the redundancy state becomes standby.
/etc/cron.hourly/
/etc/cron.daily/
/etc/cron.weekly/
/cron.monthly/
/shared/snapshot/
- The default location for snapshot files is:
/etc/alertd/alert.conf
- default SNMP traps, this file should not be edited
/config/user_alert.conf
- user-defined SNMP traps
/usr/share/snmp/mibs/
- F5 BigIP specific and non-F5 BigIP MIBs used to monitor and manage the platform can be found here in text format: They can also be found here in compressed tar format: /usr/local/www/docs/mibs/
/usr/local/www/tmui/tmui/skins/Default/images
- Graphics files used within the web based management interface can be found here: . Note replacements will probably be lost during an upgrade.
/config/net-snmp/snmp.conf
/var/local/ucs
- configuration backups location
/shared/images
- where .iso imagaes are located
- The_BhattmanNimbostratusThanks for the information
- CyrilNimbostratus
Hi John,
Thanks for the info. It's very useful information.
- Korn_Angkul_143Nimbostratus
Thank you very much
nice, might be a good addition to the 201 study guide.
- MOHIT_125417Altostratus
Thanks a useful Info...
Hello,
Can someone please tell me where the crontab file is saved, the one edited when you do "crontab -e" as user root?
Thanks.
- Found it : /var/spool/cron/root ;-)
- Shivakumar_BiraNimbostratusgood info!
- Vijith_182946Cirrostratus
Thanks for this info, but one question is this specific to version 12? I see that there are few changes in the file location when compared to old versions..
- RiverFishAltostratus
Nice! Here are a couple more...
certs: /config/filestore/files_d/Common_d/certificate_d
ifiles: /config/filestore/files_d/Common_d/ifile_d/
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