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Landono's avatar
Landono
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Oct 01, 2013

Updating Firmware on BIg IP LTM Machines From Command Line

I have eight LTM boxes I need to update from 11.2 to 11.4.1. Currently these machines are in different datacenters, which all have gigabit pipes into them. From what I've seen so far, the only way to...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Oct 01, 2013

Only 90mbps! There's a few solutions open to you here;

 

1) Upload the file once to a single box and then scp/sftp it from there to the other boxes; assuming they have connectivity to each other

 

2) Use a CLI command such as wget to pull the file directly from downloads.f5.com to each box; if each device has internet access and assuming the authorisation doesn't get in the way

 

3) Post a USB stick to someone local

 

Either way, I'd recommend you use a scp/sftp client to upload the file, not the GUI; there's less overhead. Something like pscp.