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mr_evil_116524
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Mar 03, 2015

Restore UCS file across platforms

Hi Everyone,

 

I need to know whether anyone here tried to restore UCS file restoration across platforms? I will need to restore from 4000 to 4200. This is possible? I think both units are on v11.x

 

Also during restoration I guess I will have to use

 

tmsh load sys ucs [ucs file name] no-platform-check no-license

 

Can some please shed some light on this?

 

BTW - according to F5 support across platforms restore is not supported, wonder why?

 

9 Replies

  • StephanManthey's avatar
    StephanManthey
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    Mar 03, 2015

    Hi Mr. Evil,

     

    with cross-platform ucs restore you may face issues with interface mappings and resource provisioning.

     

    This will not be the case with moving a 4000 config to a 4200.

     

    That´s why I won´t expect problems when using the the "no-platform-check" and "no-license" options.

     

    Restore from WebUI does not support these parameters and will overwrite the license.

     

    Btw, just used exactly this procedure to move a 5200 LTM/APM configuration to VE.

     

    Before I removed interface and trunk settings and increased memory for the VE. No problems at all.

     

    Thanks, Stephan

     

  • JN's avatar
    JN
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    Mar 04, 2015

    You mention "Before I removed interface and trunk settings "...I assume on the original device. What if that isn't an option? Could you setup interface and trunks on the new VE before importing a HW based ucs?

     

  • mr_evil_116524's avatar
    mr_evil_116524
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    May 14, 2015

    Hello I know its been a while since I last reply to this post...

    I have done the restore, however config has loaded properly I am getting the following error when I try to do :

    load sys config verify:

    Validating system configuration...
  /defaults/asm_base.conf
  /defaults/config_base.conf
  /defaults/low_profile_base.conf
  /defaults/policy_base.conf
  /defaults/wam_base.conf
  /defaults/analytics_base.conf
  /defaults/apm_saml_base.conf
  /defaults/app_template_base.conf
  /defaults/classification_base.conf
  /defaults/daemon.conf
  /defaults/fullarmor_gpo_base.conf
  /defaults/profile_base.conf
  /defaults/sandbox_base.conf
  /defaults/security_base.conf
  /usr/share/monitors/base_monitors.conf
Validating configuration...
  /config/bigip_base.conf
  /config/bigip_user.conf
  /config/bigip.conf
  /config/bigip_script.conf
01070623:3: The vlan (/Common/M10_Vlan10) is referenced by one or more virtual servers.
Unexpected Error: Validating configuration process failed.

    I did do a grep to see where is the referenced by but unable to find any reference to /Common/M10_Vlan10 ...

    Can someone please help?

    Thanks

    • mr_evil_116524's avatar
      mr_evil_116524
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      May 14, 2015
      Never mind saw that in the KB, thanks. I am doing this now ... lets see what happens ...
    • mr_evil_116524's avatar
      mr_evil_116524
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      May 14, 2015
      Thank you so much Nitass. However once I did pass that error I did run this issue below: 01071769:3: Decryption of the field (admin_pw) for object (/Common/xxx.xxx) failed. Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed. Which can be fixed by - https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/9000/400/sol9420.html Thanks again