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Muffe_183891
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Jan 23, 2015

Upgrade F5 BIG-IP from 11.5 to 11.6

Hi,   We got a security notice from AWS that our current F5 version 11.5 has a known security risk and they recommend us to update the version.   So we did and created a new instance and uploa...
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Alex__Applebaum
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Mar 02, 2015

Hmm, sorry. I had even quickly tested that exact upgrade (albeit with an internal BYOL license) and it worked fine.

root@(ip-10-0-0-5)(cfg-sync Changes Pending)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) show sys software

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Sys::Software Status
Volume  Product  Version    Build  Active    Status
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HD1.1    BIG-IP   11.5.1  3.0.131      no  complete
HD1.2    BIG-IP   11.6.0  0.0.401     yes  complete

Looks like a licensing issue vs. software workflow. Sorry, yeah, I know, migrating is is pretty painful. I'll forward this to our testing department to see what's going on the licensing side.