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Jeff_40026
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Mar 30, 2011

Newbie needs to apply hotfix to BIGIP LTM 6900

I am the imaging guy that has some Cisco experience that got tasked with helping out of a F5 project. We have a quantity of F5 BIGIP LTM 6900 devices that shipped with version 10.2.0 build 1707.0 on them. Our customer would like us to apply hotfix 2 and I assume after some research this means Hotfix-BIGIP-10.2.0-1789.0-HF2. I have read SOL10025 which give a high level overview of how to do this but I am worried about a few things. It looks like we will have to go through the initial setup and we want to be able to reset the device so that the end user has this same experience. I also believe that the 2 drives are possibly mirrored so I am unclear on how to go through the example scenerio of bringing the non boot drive to 10.2.0, installing the hotfix on that, and then making that the boot drive.

 

We are waiting t hear back from F5 but I was curious what sort of response I would get from this community.
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  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Mar 31, 2011
    Installing the HF is dead easy. Do the initial setup first, get the management IP up and running and license the unit.

     

     

    Once youv'e installed the HF on a different volume than current, simply use switchboot -b 'volume' to set the boot volume and reboot (You can do this from the web GUI as well BTW). The config will have been copied across, so you don't need to run setup again.

     

     

    If you really want to reset so the user HAS to go through the initial setup the procedure is described in http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/500/sol10519.html (10.0 and 9.x had sys-reset, but 10.2.0 doesn't have it, there's a longer procedure to follow :).

     

     

     

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    Hamish
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    Mar 31, 2011
    Oh.. Your sentence about the drives... You don't uinstall to a drive, you install to a volume. A drive (Or mirrored drives) will hold multiple volumes. So just create a new one in the web GUI and install 10.2.0HF2 in there

     

     

    Also, there's later HF's than HF2 for 10.2.0 (HF4 I think from memory is current)... It's usually recommended to keep up-2-date on them, so I'd probably recommend using the latest HF unless the customer has a real serious requirement not to.

     

     

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