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brad_11440
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Mar 23, 2012

v9.3 to v10.2 Upgrade - Tips?

Any tips on upgrading from a 9.3 release to the latest 10.2.3HF1 release for LTM/GTM? It's been awhile but if i recall there was an issue with HTTP monitor functionality being changed from v9 to v10....
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hoolio
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Mar 23, 2012
SMP wrote up a fairly complete doc of the issues he encountered in an article:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1084376/Problems-Overcome-During-a-Major-LTM-SoftwareHardware-Upgrade.aspx

 

 

Here is the SOL on the monitor send string change:

 

 

sol10655: Change in Behavior: CR/LF characters appended to the HTTP monitor Send string

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/10000/600/sol10655.html

 

 

You can also get more info from the LTM and GTM release notes:

 

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnotes-LTM-10-2-3.html

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_gtm/releasenotes/product/relnotes-GTM-10-2-3.html

 

 

I suggest contacting your F5 or partner SE for help in planning the upgrade.

 

 

Aaron