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ILucero_383696
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Feb 13, 2019

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Greetings, I am unfamiliar with BIG-IP so I will post my question. I did look at the forums but was unable to find a solution. We made a change to our "sorrypage.htm.class" file in the directory /var...
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jaikumar_f5
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Feb 16, 2019

Hi lLucero,

In order for external DGL's to reflect, you would need to import the file first. I believe which you have already done here.

Next step is to reference the file in the data-group,

For which you have to perform the below,

Capture the 

external-file-name
by running the below command, in my case the external datagroup referenced in Irule is 
sample_external_dgl

(tmos) list ltm data-group external sample_external_dgl
ltm data-group external sample_external_dgl {
    external-file-name sample_external_dgl_file
    type string
}

Now that we know the external-file-name, do a list to show you the current file its mapped to,

tmsh list sys file data-group sample_external_dgl_file

You would see something like below,

mode 33188
revision 5
size 43
source-path file:/var/class/sorrypage-old.htm.class

Finally run your modify command,

tmsh modify /sys file data-group sample_external_dgl_file separator ":=" source-path file:/var/class/sorrypage.htm.class type string

Output will be something like below,

`Copying file "file:/var/class/sorrypage.htm.class" ...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    42  100    42    0     0   820k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  820k


Hope it helps. Sorry for the delay... 🙂