Anthony
Oct 19, 2012Nimbostratus
upgrading in stages from 10.2.0 - loss of node names
Hi all, I appologise if this is posted in the wrong area, but it is config based.
I have the task of upgrading our 2 test & 2 production loadbalancers.
All are currently on LTM v10.2.0.
I have taken the approach of moving up in steps of main versions and final hotfixes as my previous attempt to go to 11.2.0 failed.
When I upgraded to 11.0.0, I can see that the way nodes are handled has changed. As such, everything showing in our network map is no longer itendifyable in the usual manor. We have a large amount of nodes so being able to view them by a meaningful name is important.
I found one article that suggested editing the bigip.conf, but having done that I get an error when I try to load it again - so I'm wondering if I'm missing something there.
This is the error on loading the bigip.conf...
[root@romulus:Standby] config tmsh load sys config
Loading system configuration...
/defaults/app_template_base.conf
/defaults/config_base.conf
/config/low_profile_base.conf
/defaults/wam_base.conf
/usr/share/monitors/base_monitors.conf
/config/daemon.conf
/config/profile_base.conf
/defaults/fullarmor_gpo_base.conf
Loading configuration...
/config/bigip_base.conf
/config/bigip_user.conf
/config/bigip.conf
01070734:3: Configuration error: invalid node address, the IP address 192.168.10.11 already exists
Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed.
Can anyone advise me if there are any other ways of getting out node names back? Or give more information on how I can update them in the bigip.conf if it is a manual task?
Many thanks,
Anthony