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gdoyle
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Mar 11, 2020

Matching Configuration Problem.

Hey, all. I am serving as a hot site for a customer, but have recently run into a bit of a snag. My colleague that previously helped this customer left the company about six months ago and due to an ...
application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM
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Simon_Blakely
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Mar 12, 2020
load sys config merge file <file-name>
load sys config merge from-terminal

will be your friends ...

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gdoyle
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Mar 12, 2020

Thanks, S Blakely. My one concern is that there are other sections in here (e.g. security) that I do not want to merge. Is it possible to strip everything except the LTM portion of that from the bigip.conf file they supply, load that as something like "bigip-tomerge.conf," and then merge from there?

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    Simon_Blakely
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    Mar 12, 2020

    Yes - I recommend breaking things down into smaller sections, and you need to apply dependencies first.

    profiles

    policies

    nodes

    pools

    virtuals

     

    You still may have issues with things like SSL certificates/keys, and I recommend trying to migrate them manually - you can copy the filestore (using rsync) but I generally don't recommend it, as it is hard to get the filestore and config right