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How to get a F5 BIG-IP VE Developer Lab License

(applies to BIG-IP TMOS Edition) To assist operational teams teams improve their development for the BIG-IP platform, F5 offers a low cost developer lab license. This license can be purchas...
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I have a lab edition that I purchased in November of last year. It has the same part number as what is being sold on CDW today (F5-BIG-VE-LAB-V13), however when I try to use BIGIP 12.1 I get:

 

Sep 19 09:18:21 localhost err ql[21932]: 01180006:3: Software version not covered by service agreement service check date 20151102 version date 20160318.

 

It looks like based on this:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/700/sol7727.html

 

The latest version I can use is BIGIP 12.0. My colleague has the same problem.

 

I've validated and the license is still under "warrantee" - does anyone know what one needs to do to be able to use 12.1.x?

 

Thanks.

 

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