Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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epaalx
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Feb 28, 2012

Where LTM's getting its configuration?

Hi F5'ers,   I'm running 10.2.2HF3 in HA.   Manually I've changed /config/bigip*.conf, specifically, removed references and configuration of non-Common Partitions.   There's a known fault in ...
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Feb 28, 2012
Hi Alex,

 

 

What error do you get when running 'b load'? That should work to force a reload of the config from file into memory.

 

 

Else, you can remove the binary config file cache (this requires an outage though):

 

 

bigstart stop

 

rm /var/db/mcp.*

 

bigstart start

 

 

sol13030: Forcing the mcpd process to reload configuration

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/000/sol13030.html

 

 

SOL6622: Change in Behavior: Beginning in version 9.4, BIG-IP loads its configuration from binary image files instead of text-based files at system startup

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/600/sol6622.html

 

 

Aaron