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Herman2024
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Nov 21, 2024

Should config via cli rather than gui?

hi, someone advised to better config big-ip via cli rather than gui,  and for HA cluster, should config on standby unit rather than active unit. Are these advices correct? if yes, why need to do so? ...
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  • Paulius's avatar
    Paulius
    Nov 25, 2024

    Herman2024

    1. It is recommended to use the GUI whenever possible. For me, when I make a lot of changes at once I use the CLI because it's faster but if it's just a few changes I will perform them in the GUI.
    2. If you have your HA cluster setup to auto-sync the configuration between devices it doesn't matter if you make the changes on the active or standby unit. If you made the changes on the standby unit you theoretically have a slight delay for the changes to sync to the primary unit.

    Food for thought. A lot of the F5 certificate questions are GUI based so it would be better in the long run to make the changes in the GUI.

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Kerry
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Nov 27, 2024

i use both.  GUI the most.   CLI useful when you have lots of the same stuff to configure at once or the same stuff over several different non HA F5's.   and you can pre-create the lines in a text editor.   

 

i also have admin partitions so both HA F5's are active as the TG groups are set to fail back to a preferred F5.   set the MAC address on the TG groups