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nathe's avatar
nathe
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Mar 29, 2010

SCF v UCS

Hi,     I'm trying to fully understand the differences between an SCF and a UCS file and best practice on which to use for a migration. I know that the SCF file is a flat text file with var...
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John_Arnold_106
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Mar 31, 2010
In general we have moved over to SCF for most (99%) operations. SCF makes deployments a lot easier since you can templatize the whole LTM config, and also is a lot easier to integrate into config archiving systems like HP NAS (Truecontrol) etc, or any other config diffing system. Also, there are a lot of issues with UCS and doing RMAs that are resolved with just using SCF.

 

 

That said, some caveats:

 

-SCF doesn't contain your SSL certs or any other flat files you may need

 

-SCF doesn't contain all the config data for every module