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Dave_Noonan
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Jan 23, 2020
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Modify local traffic policy from CLI or API

I recently got enjoy the GUI for local traffic policy management and determined that it's an abomination. You can't duplicate a policy so it's click-click-click all the way through to add eight near...
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    Dario_Garrido
    Jan 23, 2020

    Hello Dave.

     

    You could list your configuration with "list ltm policy ..", copy this to a notepad and modify everything you want and import this to current configuration using "merge" command.

     

    It's really easy to use.

    REF - https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K81271448

     

    KR,

    Dario.

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Dave_Noonan
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Jan 23, 2020

That sounds perfect. I found the list but didn't know how to get the modified config back into the F5. Was thinking maybe API could pass it in or something.

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Dave_Noonan
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Jan 24, 2020

Thank you for the examples!

 

I haven't read the whole article yet but was assuming I needed to create a file on the F5 with my modified config snippet. The from-terminal option makes it even better.