Loading config using .scf file

[Amresh008]

I there any proven method of using the .scf file to load config on a new F5 (there are reasons due to which I am not able to use the .ucs file).

I have the scf file from a physical device which I am trying to load on a virtual one. Both devices are using same major OS release , i.e. 12.

Everything goes smoothly, until I get a syntax error of different sorts. Going back to the notepad++ file, I keep on correcting what the destination F5 says

Sometimes, it reports about the curly brackets }, sometimes it says unexpected element, partition, etc. and now it is the following error about which I am clueless:-

A cli preference with empty user attribute found. This cli preference, will be ignored.

Unexpected Error: "basic_string::at"

I have changed the management ip, device name in the source file to suit the destination.

Have only provided the management interface on the destination as if now.

[PeteWhite]

Hi, you have probably make some mistake in your syntax and so it is puking on that. However, you can also use

tmsh load sys config merge file <file path>

This loads a proportion of config, so you can load it a small amount at a time and you will probably find the issue that way. You can PM me your config if you want me to take a look

[Amresh008]

Hi Pete,

Thanks​ for looking into it, but I have already tried this command. Either the error is an unexpected "}" on any line of the script on the notepad++ file or something else. When I remove the } in that line , it gives another error and so on. I cannot share the config file due to obvious reasons