CirrusHi!
We are in the process of replacing our two BIG-IP 6900's with two new 7050's. What would be the easiest way of migrating the configuration to the new hardware? Does anyone know of any documents or SOL describing the whole process? I know of UCS and SCF files, but as far as I understand there needs to be manually changes to, no only export and import the config?
/Riad
Employeei normally do restore ucs with no-license and no-platform-check.
root@(ve11c)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) load sys ucs test.ucs ?
Options:
no-license This option mostly is for RMA use. It loads full configuration from a UCS file except license file.
no-platform-check Bypass platform check.
passphrase Passphrase for (un)encrypting UCS.
reset-trust Reset device and trust domain certificates and keys when loading a UCS.
there is a known issue about no-platform-check in 11.6.0 prior to hf4.
sol16216: The tmsh no-platform-check option may not function as expected
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/16000/200/sol16216.html
CirrusThanks for the quick response nitass. What about the Interfaces, the new boxes have other types of interfaces, I guess one would need to change them manually afterwards?
EmployeeWhat about the Interfaces, the new boxes have other types of interfaces, I guess one would need to change them manually afterwards?
yes, command will fail because interface may not be same but configuration file (e.g. bigip_base.conf, bigip.conf) will already be restored. what we have to do is to manually modify the configuration file (e.g. /config/bigip_base.conf) and re-load the configuration (i.e. tmsh load sys config).
CirrusOk, is there anything else you would suggest that we do or consider before or after doing this?
EmployeeCirrusGreat! Thanks for your help.