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Mar 04, 2021

when manually edit a config file, changes don't not take effect until the config files are reloaded from disk

Were running BigIP 12.1.3 on a Viprion 2400 and noticed when we manually edited /config//bigip_base.conf file, changes did not take effect until we reloaded the configuration from disk. Moreover, if ...
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Mar 04, 2021

Thanks Simon and apologies if I am not following you. But, if I am making changes to the config file stored on the disk, not in memory, what am I overwriting it with when I do save sys config?

 

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Simon_Blakely
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Mar 04, 2021

The config from memory - which is *not changed* when you make a change to the config files. You need to do a load sys config to get changes from the config files into memory.