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Evan_Thompson's avatar
Evan_Thompson
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Jul 26, 2018

How do I see the configuration lying on another slot?

Dear all.

 

Does anyone know the way to see the configuration that is lying on another side slot?

 

For example, I have 3 slot and default boot slot is HD1.1.

 

In the situation of being on the slot 1, I want to see the configuration, which is bigip.conf, bigip_base.conf in the slot2 or 3.

 

Is it possible?

 

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HD1.1 BIG-IP 11.2.1 1299.0 no complete

 

HD1.2 BIG-IP 11.3.0 3164.0 no complete

 

HD1.3 BIG-IP 11.5.4 3.0.305 no complete

 

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  • Simon_Blakely's avatar
    Simon_Blakely
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    Jul 26, 2018

    You can mount the var partition for another boot volume:

     ls /dev/mapper/*_var

    will show the LVM objects containing var partitions. You can mount the one of those partitions (from HD1.2) as follows ...

     mkdir /mnt/alt_var

     mount -o ro /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.2._var /mnt/alt_var

     ls /mnt/alt_var/local/ucs

    You can then copy ucs files from the mounted partition to /shared.

    Once you have finished, remember to unmount 

     umount /mnt/alt_var

    Of course, you can also mount the /config volume in a similar fashion.

    Remember to mount the alternative volume as read-only (-o ro) so you cannot change anything and cause a config issue that may prevent system startup.