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mali77_57143
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Oct 19, 2012

Initial deployment question

So I inherited these two Big IP LTM products. In the past I have used Cisco Content Switches and they made sense. This is my first time working with the F5's and the documentation so far have been ...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Oct 23, 2012
Have you configured Network Failover for the correct VLAN and IPs and confirmed there's no serial cable in place?

 

 

Yes, VLAN configuration must be performed manually on each device - I'd suggest in advance of a failure!

 

 

Yes, you need to ConfigSync manually each time you make changes. I'm not sure anyone would like it to be automatic, especially if a misconfiguration or typo kills a service on all your devices - removing the opportunity of a backout by failing over! Of course, I'm sure there's some people using iControl or tmsh scripts to manage this.