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rajeev_81179
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Aug 03, 2009

How to copy config or upgrade procedure

My company has LTM 5100 and have got new machines LTM 6900. How can I copy config from 5100 to 6900. I do know that hostname and ipaddress of the new machine should be the same as the old one, but wha...
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hoolio
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Aug 04, 2009
Hi Raj,

 

 

You can upgrade the 5100 to 9.4.7 (Click here) and then copy the bigip.conf using SCP to the 6900. I would not bother trying to load a UCS file from the 5100 onto the 6900. If it works at all, you'll get so many errors it will probably leave the 6900 in a questionable state.

 

 

Aaron