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RajeshB
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Feb 07, 2025

How to avoid conflicts in bigiq by keeping each BIGIP separately.

Hello experts, Suppose there is a environment running with BIGIP devices of prod and UAT having similar object names based on the application. So if we want to onboard these devices to BIGIQ for the...
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Feb 17, 2025

RajeshB Sadly the only option is to have a unique name for the specific configuration item that you don't want to be the same across all devices that the BIG-IQ manages. We had a similar situation where the configuration for Primary and Secondary sites needed to be slightly different because of their location so the only alternative was to use unique names among the different BIG-IPs.

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    RajeshB
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    Feb 17, 2025

    PauliusThank you for the response, having the unique name for the existing objects is a tedious task because devices had lot off objects with similar application names. is there any alternate like partitioning. 

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      Paulius
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      Feb 17, 2025

      RajeshB Sadly, I believe this is your only option.