Question about staged config changes - basically...which F5 device/app do I use?

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We have about 100 LTMs, a few DNS, and a couple BigIQ. We have limited programming experience/knowledge/resources. Every couple of weeks we are logging in, manually copying all our staged config changes to varius LTM's during a change window. Typically these changes entail adding nodes to an existing pool. Sometimes, it entails creating a virtual, a pool, and the nodes under it.&nbsp;
Here's my dream: Prep all the configs during the week (as usual). Stage the configs somewhere, and schedule a task to deliver them to relevant LTM device. Then, for icing on cake, I'd like it to email me once the change has been applied. &nbsp;
If we use only the basic of tasks, adding existing nodes to a pool, what device/app would I use to do all this. &nbsp;
I'm confused over BigIQ, iControl, and iApps.&nbsp;

ian_støttrup · Answer

Without knowing more about your setup, its hard to come up with a ready-set-go solution. Have you looked at using a Sync-Only group for distributing changes?&nbsp;

ian_s__120053 · Answer

Without knowing more about your setup, its hard to come up with a ready-set-go solution. Have you looked at using a Sync-Only group for distributing changes?&nbsp;

jackburton76_32 · Answer

I'm unfamiliar with that concept. Is that a type of group created on each pair of LTM's that doesn't impact existing config, but the configs can be staged there? Any links you know of I could read about it?

jackburton76_32 · Answer

I'm unfamiliar with that concept. Is that a type of group created on each pair of LTM's that doesn't impact existing config, but the configs can be staged there? Any links you know of I could read about it?

ian_s__120053 · Answer

A Sync-Only device group contains devices that synchronize configuration data with one another, but their configuration data does not fail over to other members of the device group.&nbsp;
As apposed to a Sync-Failover device group contains devices that synchronize their configuration data and fail over to one another when a device becomes unavailable&nbsp;
The most common reason to use a Sync-Only device group is to synchronize a specific folder containing policy data that you want to share across all BIG-IP devices.&nbsp;
Perhaps I have misunderstood what you need, but you can read more about device-groups here:&nbsp;
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-device-service-clustering-admin-11-5-0/6.html&nbsp;

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