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aj11
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Feb 18, 2025

What is the best way to view an old configuration (UI or CLI)?

Can we deploy a temporary (disconnected) VE and restore the configs?  It seems you can't upload .ucs files to iHealth to inspect. We recently migrated from hardware F5 BIG-IP platforms to VEs, and n...
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aj11
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Feb 20, 2025

Wow, thanks.  That's interesting that it's basically just a .rar file.  I was able to use tar to unzip the file (though, some files must retain certain permissions, as I could not move or delete them without using admin privs once extracted).

However, we're trying to find logging settings (System -> Logs -> Configuration -> Options) to compare since we're logging much more than we were and might need to tune it down a bit.  A quick search through the text in the extracted 'bigip.conf' file didn't find much related to these (I'm not sure what the syntax is to be looking for).  Do you know where exactly I could find these settings and in which file?

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Michael_Saleem
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Feb 21, 2025

Hi,

The settings at "System -> Logs -> Configuration -> Options" are stored as BigDB variables.

/config/BigDB.dat


So hopefully you should be able to copy the contents within this file from the old and the new BIG-IP into a text editor and perform a configuration diff to see if there are any differences between the two in terms of the log BigDB variables.