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Joel_Breton
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Jun 29, 2017

Running multiple tmsh commands

I'm trying to run multiple commands to change the names of BIG-IP objects. I tried two methods without any success. Method 1: Copy all the commands and paste in the putty session Problem: When ...
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Joel_Breton
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Jun 29, 2017

I was able to fix Method 2 by removing tmsh from the text file and call the file with tmsh instead of sh.

[root@localhost:Active:Standalone] ~  tmsh < renamenodes.txt

Content of renamenodes.txt

mv ltm node /mypart/10.1.1.1 /mypart/newname1
mv ltm node /mypart/10.1.1.2 /mypart/newname2
mv ltm node /mypart/10.1.1.3 /mypart/newname3
mv ltm node /mypart/10.1.1.4 /mypart/newname4

All 230 nodes were successfully renamed without issues.