node name re-written: Upgrade from v10 - V11

You could consider scripting this in Bash.

Start with a list of the nodes and dump to a file:

cat bigip.conf |grep "ltm node" |awk -F" " '{ print $3 }'

Create a copy of your bigip.conf file - you'll be working with the copy (bigip.conf.replace)

cp bigip.conf bigip.conf.replace

Now create a Perl script and add the following line for as many nodes as you have:

perl -pi -e 's/OLD-NAME/NEW_NAME/g' bigip.conf.replace

Where OLD-NAME is the (escaped) current value. So for example, if an existing node name is "/Common/10.70.0.3", your Perl script line will look something like this:

perl -pi -e 's/\/Common\/10.70.0.3/local-dot-3/g' bigip.conf.replace

** The -i means to edit in place.

If you dumped the original list into a text file:

1. replace any instance of "/" with "\/"

2. add "perl -pi -e 's/" to the beginning of each line

3. add "/g' bigip.conf.replace" to the end of each line

4. manually fill in the second part of each replace string to meet your naming requirements.

Open the bigip.conf.replace file to make sure everything looks good. If it does, swap it with bigip.conf (don't delete the original in case you run into problems - make another copy), and reload:

tmsh load sys config