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AndOs's avatar
AndOs
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Jan 25, 2011

Moving objects between partitions

Hi!

 

 

Is there any recommended way or best practice for moving VIPs/objects between partitions except for editing the config manually?

 

 

Is it possible to "export" a config just for a specific VIP and then import it into another partition?

 

Perhaps with the command line tools?

 

 

If the absolutely only way is to edit the config files, which files are needed to update?

 

Is it just bigip.conf, or any of the other .conf-files under /config?

 

 

 

Best regards

 

Andreas

 

 

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  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Jan 26, 2011
    Hi Andreas,

     

     

    You could potentially write a tmsh script to do this. I think you'd need to map out all of the related objects, save them, delete them in the correct order based on references and then add them back in the reverse order using the correct partition.

     

     

    Or you could just edit the bigip.conf and reload it to make the changes. A tmsh script might make sense if you have to do this a lot.

     

     

    tmsh wiki index page

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/tmsh.HomePage

     

     

    Aaron
  • Patrik_Jonsson's avatar
    Patrik_Jonsson
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    Mar 30, 2012
    Which config files are involved if you want to move some configuration manually? We have a rather big environment and I'm not very keen on manually deleting objects and re-creating them.

     

     

    I've found references to partitions in:

     

    bigip_local.conf

     

    bigip_base.conf

     

    bigip.conf

     

    bigip_sys.conf

     

     

    When trying to move config in between partiotions I always get errors. Is there some config file that I've missed?