run a list of tmsh commands (copy - paste) failed

Did you try this in tmsh? load sys config from-terminal merge

if you have bash access on the F5 (from tmsh, run "run /util bash"), you can create and execute a bash script out of the tmsh commands:

1. preface each command with "tmsh" so each command can be run from bash
2. add !/bin/bash as the first line of the text file
3. upload the file containing the commands to /shared/(filename).sh using SCP
4. from bash on the f5, make the script executable

   chmod 755 /shared/(filename).sh

5. execute the script

   bash /shared/(filename).sh

6. once you validate that the resulting configuration is what you desired/expected, save the config

   tmsh save /sys config partitions all

i often use this instead of copying/pasting commands as error output is the only thing output to the screen and is not lost among the list of commands being run

if you have bash access on the F5 (from tmsh, run "run /util bash"), you can create and execute a bash script out of the tmsh commands:

1. preface each command with "tmsh" so each command can be run from bash
2. add !/bin/bash as the first line of the text file
3. upload the file containing the commands to /shared/(filename).sh using SCP
4. from bash on the f5, make the script executable

   chmod 755 /shared/(filename).sh

5. execute the script

   bash /shared/(filename).sh

6. once you validate that the resulting configuration is what you desired/expected, save the config

   tmsh save /sys config partitions all

i often use this instead of copying/pasting commands as error output is the only thing output to the screen and is not lost among the list of commands being run

Thank you G.Scott Harris

It seems

 load sys config file my_file.txt verify 

load sys config file my_file.txt merge 

Thank you shaggy.

I tried your way, but I get this message error:

"yntax Error: invalid property value "state":"up}}

The line is :

create ltm pool E3_Akio_8236 monitor http load-balancing-mode least-connections-member members add { sprjvihs01:8236 sprjvihs02:8236 {state user-up}}

I tried to adapt the line with no success...

What finally works in my case is :

tmsh < script.txt 

That's the simplest way and it works so it suits me 🙂

You can't use the cd command inside a config file. Instead the name of the object should include the full path like this:

/partition/object_name

Dear All, I need to migrate F5 8900 to i7800, please help to get shorter way to copy all config from existing device to new device. I have already tried with UCS file and bypassed platform and licence but still got error. Please provide solution.