Welcome to the F5 BIG-IP Migration Assistant - Now the F5 Journeys App
The older F5 BIG-IP Migration Assistant is deprecated and is replaced by F5 Journeys.
Welcome to the F5 Journeys App - BIG-IP Upgrade and Migration Utility
F5 Journeys App Readme @ Github
What is it?
The F5® Journeys BIG-IP upgrade and migration utility is a tool freely distributed by F5 to facilitate migrating BIG-IP configurations between different platforms. F5 Journeys is a downloadable assistant that coordinates the logistics required to migrate a BIG-IP configuration from one BIG-IP instance to another.
Why do I need it?
JOURNEYS is an application designed to assist F5 Customers with migrating a BIG-IP configuration to a new F5 device and enable new ways of migrating.
Supported journeys:
- Full Config migration - migrating a BIG-IP configuration from any version starting at 11.5.0 to a higher one, including VELOS and rSeries systems.
- Application Service migration - migrating mission critical Applications and their dependencies to a new AS3 configuration and deploying it to a BIG-IP instance of choice.
What does it do?
It does a bunch of stuff:
- Loading UCS or UCS+AS3 source configurations
- Flagging source configuration feature parity gaps and fixing them with provided built-in solutions
- Load validation
- Deployment of the updated configuration to a destination device, including VELOS and rSeries VM tenants
- Post-migration diagnostics
- Generating detailed PDF reports at every stage of the journey
Full config BIG-IP migrations are supported for software paths according to the following matrix:
| DEST | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | 11.x | 12.x | 13.x | 14.x | 15.x | 16.x | |
| <11.5 | X | X | X | X^ | X^ | ||
| 12.x | X | X | X | X^ | |||
| SRC | 13.x | X | X | X | |||
| 14.x | X | X | X | ||||
| 15.x | X | X | |||||
| 16.x |
How does it work?
F5 Journeys App manages the logistics of a configuration migration. The F5 Journeys App either generates or accepts a UCS file from you, prompts you for a destination BIG-IP instance, and manages the migration. The destination BIG-IP instance has a tmsh command that performs the migration from a UCS to a running system. F5 Journeys uses this tmsh command to accomplish the migration using the platform-migrate option (see more details K82540512) .
The F5 Journeys App prompts you to enter a source BIG-IP (or upload a UCS file), the master key password, and destination BIG-IP instance. Once the tool obtains this information, it allows you to migrate the source BIG-IP configuration to the destination BIG-IP instance either entirely or in a per-application depending what you choose.
Where do I obtain it?
F5 Journeys App Readme @ Github
What can go wrong?
Bug reporting
Let us know if something went wrong. By reporting issues, you support development of this project and get a chance of having it fixed soon. Please use bug template available here and attach the journeys.log file from the working directory (
/tmp/journeysFeature requests
Ideas for enhancements are welcome here
For questions or further discussion please leave your comments below. Enjoy!
38 Comments
Srini_87152Cirrostratus
Hi Jong,
I dont see any executable files, all it has just .md and .png file.
Thx
Srini
Hi Srini,
This link should contain the executables for the tool:
https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-big-ip-migration-assistant/releases
Does that work for you?
- Srini_87152
yes,i did and unzipd those..all im seeing FAQ,README,SETUP and SUPPORT .md files and one folder with resources[ .png files].
Thx
Srini
Stanislas_Piro2Cumulonimbus
Click on the zip or tar.gz links
- Srini_87152
Folks,
I dont see any software on github to download, is that something im wrong?
All im seeing .MD readle files.
Thx
Srini
Ok thanks PK! Just one thing to note, the Migration Assistant won't be able to connect directly to the BIG-IP running 11.5.4 (it requires software versions 12.1 or greater), but it should be returning a more friendly notification so I'll get that fixed. If you'd like to migrate from an 11.5.4 config, the Migration Assistant 'archives' panel provides a tool for selecting a previously generated UCS from versions 11.1 or greater, which can then be used for migration. We'll get the TypeError issue fixed for next release- thanks again!
- P_K
Altostratus
Will: I tried adding below devices
Big-IP 4000 running 11.5.4,
vCMP guest running 12.1.2(w/ Latest HF) host is running 11.5.4(5250v),
Big-IP VE running 12.1.2..
All the above resulted in below error
Big-IP VE 13.1.0 was added to the list with no issues. PK: thanks for the feedback, I'll do my best to reproduce and fix that issue for the next release. If you're able to provide the BIG-IP model and software version, that should be a big help in producing the repro.
PK: Thanks, I will have our dev team look into this.
- P_K
Jong: See my response below
1. I'm just trying to add devices from Add device tab. I'm not there yet to do the migration.
2. v1.0.1
3. Win10
