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JackBurton76_32
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Sep 19, 2017

Question about staged config changes - basically...which F5 device/app do I use?

We have about 100 LTMs, a few DNS, and a couple BigIQ. We have limited programming experience/knowledge/resources. Every couple of weeks we are logging in, manually copying all our staged config chan...
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Sep 20, 2017

Without knowing more about your setup, its hard to come up with a ready-set-go solution. Have you looked at using a Sync-Only group for distributing changes?

 

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    JackBurton76_32
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    Sep 20, 2017

    I'm unfamiliar with that concept. Is that a type of group created on each pair of LTM's that doesn't impact existing config, but the configs can be staged there? Any links you know of I could read about it?

     

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    Sep 21, 2017

    A Sync-Only device group contains devices that synchronize configuration data with one another, but their configuration data does not fail over to other members of the device group.

     

    As apposed to a Sync-Failover device group contains devices that synchronize their configuration data and fail over to one another when a device becomes unavailable

     

    The most common reason to use a Sync-Only device group is to synchronize a specific folder containing policy data that you want to share across all BIG-IP devices.

     

    Perhaps I have misunderstood what you need, but you can read more about device-groups here:

     

    https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-device-service-clustering-admin-11-5-0/6.html