Problems Overcome During a Major LTM Software/Hardware Upgrade

I recently completed a successful major LTM hardware and software migration which accomplished two high-level goals: ·         Software upgrade from v9.3.1HF8 to v10.1.0HF1 ·         Hardware pla...
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j_pedley_46776
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Jun 29, 2010
Great work! Another thing to worry about iRules is datagroup naming. In 9.4.X, I have datagroups such as ::dg_name. This works fine in 9.4 but fails in 10.2. Fix is to add the $. You can also do this pre-migration, but be warned, if your datagroup name has a hyphen in it, it will truncate the variable in 9.4, and since it doesn't match a valid datagroup, it will abort.

 

 

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