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Michaelyang
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Oct 25, 2022

Virtual server and pool configuration disappear...

Hello, After I re-activate my License in my LAB, my virtual and pool settings are gone... I checked the running configuration RAM and /config/bigip.conf.bak and found that they are really gone... ...
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  • Samir's avatar
    Samir
    Oct 25, 2022

    As per my experience looks like you have mimic f5 license key wrongly and later you have added correct license key(activate.f5.com). In that case it will remove exiting config from f5. Generally bymistake it happens

  • Matt_Mabis's avatar
    Matt_Mabis
    Oct 27, 2022

    Just curious did you utilize any automation or CLI when configuring your BIG-IP or was it all done via GUI?    when in the GUI it auto saves on execution but for example using Ansible you have to save the running configuration to commit the changes on reboot or even re-license.    

Samir's avatar
Samir
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Oct 25, 2022

Looks like by mistake somewhere you reset the configurations. If it is lab then you can reconfigure it. 🙂

  • Michaelyang's avatar
    Michaelyang
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    Oct 25, 2022

    Hi Samir,

    Thanks for your reply.
    At that time I could only do Re-active licenses...
    I know I can reconfigure it.

    But what caused this to happen...?

    Any help is appreciated.

    • Samir's avatar
      Samir
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      Oct 25, 2022

      As per my experience looks like you have mimic f5 license key wrongly and later you have added correct license key(activate.f5.com). In that case it will remove exiting config from f5. Generally bymistake it happens