Upgrade F5 BIG-IP from 11.5 to 11.6

Hello Muffe,

To help investigate, what are the AMI IDs from the aws-marketplace for the BIG-IPs you are using?

Which type of configuration file did you use when restoring the 11.5.x configuration on the new 11.6.0 instance? Was it a .ucs or .scf backup? I suspect that you may have used an .ucs file.

Using similar types of Hourly Billing instances. Try restoring the configuration using the .scf method.

Going from 11.5.x to 11.6.0 there are some changes in authentication.

Here is a long version.

As an example, starting from:

F5 Networks BIG-IP VE 11.5.1.0.4.110 - GOOD 25Mbps - Hourly Billing - built -fa8a82ce-7679-467d-9880-16497f3ac022-ami-8b4b52e2.2 (ami-5d5c4434)

Upgrading to:

F5 Networks Hourly Hotfix-BIGIP-11.6.0.1.0.403-HF1 - Good 25Mbps - built on -fa8a82ce-7679-467d-9880-16497f3ac022-ami-7ab63012.2 (ami-6ad05d02)

On the 11.5.x instance, configure the system and create the .scf backup using tmsh.

root@(ip-10-0-0-XX)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) save sys config file 11_5_1_ConfiguredBase

This saves the configuration file in /var/local/scf/

Launch a fresh Hourly Billing instance of 11.6.0 and copy the 11.5.1 configuration files to /var/local/scf/ on the new system.

Using tmsh, load the configuration

admin@(ip-10-0-0-XX)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) load sys config file 11_5_1_ConfiguredBase

** Before doing anything else you need to enable the shell for the admin account.

admin@(ip-10-0-0-XX)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) modify auth user admin shell tmsh

admin@(ip-10-0-0-XX)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) save sys config

With 11.6.0, the admin account can connect using ssh and when they do, they will be in the tmsh shell. To get the bash shell execute:

admin@(ip-10-0-0-XXX)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) run util bash

[admin@ip-10-0-0-XXX:Active:Standalone] ~

Hope this helps.