UCS file migration on differing OS versions
We are currently upgrading the F5 load balancers of our customer, from iSeries, to rSeries. old F5 load balancers: model: BIG-IP i5600 (C119) OS: 12.1.x (either 12.1.2 Hotfix HF2 2.0.276 or 12.1.4 Final 0.0.8) GTM / DNS configurations: enabled new F5 load balancers: model: rSeries (2600 and 4800) OS: 17.5.1.6 GTM / DNS configurations: no longer needed, as per our customer questions: 1. Noting the OS versions of the old and new F5 load balancers... Is this the ideal OS upgrade sequence? (based on F5 K13845) BIG-IP 12.x > BIG-IP 14.x > BIG-IP 15.x or BIG-IP 16.x > BIG-IP 17.x 2. BIG-IP 14.x is no longer available in F5's Downloads website. Are there any other methods for obtaining a copy of BIG-IP 14.x? 3. About UCS file migration, from old to new F5 load balancers: Would there be any risks, configuration-wise, if we do the following steps? - we take the UCS file from the old F5 load balancer, which is running on BIG-IP 12.x - we import and load that UCS file onto the new lab F5 load balancer, which is running on BIG-IP 17.x 4. Since our customer advised that they will no longer need any GTM / DNS configurations on their new F5 load balancer: Should we delete the bigip_gtm.conf file from the contents of the UCS file of the old F5 load balancer, before migrating to the new F5 load balancer?
about create wide ip,
i create generic host (Firewall) server and virtual server for wide ip, i use health monitor is gateway_icmp but server and virtual server It keeps flapping between up and down, and the status is unstable. i was cli device F5 ping test to device generic host ok, its ok, its dont have lost or packet loss can you help me check issue
Cannot automatically add the LTM virtual server to DNS
Hi Team, I'm having an issue while configuring GTM. DNS is able to connect to the BIG-IP LTM, but it cannot automatically add the LTM virtual servers to DNS. I checked the iqdump, and it does contain information related to the LTM virtual servers, but I still don't see any VS entries in the GUI. After that, I tried to manually add the LTM virtual servers, but it showed this error message: 'no reply from big3d: timed out'.
GTM Synchronization Group Modify Self-IP Resynchronization
I have four GTMs which are in a sync group, due to relocation of the equipment to the server room I need to change the self-ip , please advise me how to do the change without changing the configuration of the sync group. Thank you very much.
BGP Over 2 vlans to 2 Network switch
Hi, im testing a new design for ltm, when’re big ip will have 2 transit vlans to switch a and switch b and then i ll establish bgp over it. Switch will advertise default to Big ip and big ip will advertise vip and snat to switch. I use snat for vip since traffic should not drip when a switch fails. The way im advertising snat is by creating them as virtual server forward ip type with loose close and initiation enabled, and vip is configured as standard type with this snat. These will be advertised to bgp from kernal. I enabled connection mirroring for this vip, disabled autolast hop globally and vlan keyed connections. My expectation is connection to vip don’t drip when a switch fails or during big ip failover . And with bgp I disabled graceful restart and enabled bfd. This works with what I did so far. My question if if there is something I should think about before implementing in production or any that I can do make this better. Is my approach to advertise snat as forwadip vs correct ? I want to do similar approach with gtm as well and I’m thinking if I should create a non floating self ip like loopback for listener and snat to backend vip?
how to monitor the axfr master response
Hi everyone. Previously I had a zone transfer configuration between GTM (slave) and Microsoft AD (master). Recently, I have experienced problems with axfr access to the server with intermittent status, but for ixfr it is still monitored normally. I tested both using the dig tool. related to this, does anyone have experience, how to monitor the axfr master response? such as placing the master server into a pool, and monitoring it like a health monitor. some provide references to monitor links and external monitors, but I don't really understand. thank youBIG-IP DNS: Check Status Of Multiple Monitors Against Pool Member
Good day, everyone! Within the LTM platform, if a Pool is configured with "Min 1 of" with multiple monitors, you can check the status per monitor via tmsh show ltm monitor <name>, or you can click the Pool member in the TMUI and it will show you the status of each monitor for that member. I cannot seem to locate a similar function on the GTM/BIG-IP DNS platform. We'd typically use this methodology when transitioning to a new type of monitor, where we can passively test connectivity without the potential for impact prior to removing the previous monitor. Does anyone have a way through tmsh or the TMUI where you can check an individual pool member's status against the multiple monitors configured for its pool? Thanks, all!Any issue if setting up LTM and GTM/DNS on the same F5 Appliance Cluster?
Hi, we have a pair of F5 appliance, and plan to setup HA cluster. After HA configuration and both appliance in sync, LTM works well as active/standby mode as expected GTM delivery listener is active on active F5 appliance as expected, the dns queries are routed to the active appliance GTM wild-ip pool members are shown "down" state on Standby appliance. The status of Data Center/Links are also shown "down" on the Standby appliance. Is it normal? Both F5 appliances are configured under the same GTM sync-group with different external physical links. Can someone please advise? Thanks in advance!
