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Home Articles Loadbalancers F5 BIG-IP How do I to rename a Virtual Server on a F5 LTM ?

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VENDOR
F5
PLATFORM LTM
VERSION
10.x

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How do I to rename a Virtual

Server on a F5 LTM ?
Written on 09 October 2011. Posted in F5 BIG-IP

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Below provides the steps rename a virtual server, pool or any other object within the
con guration of a F5 LTM. The steps provided involve the editing of the (bigip.conf)
con guration le. This le is then veri ed for any potential issues before it is loaded and
committed to the F5 LTM`s running con guration.

BACKUP CONFIGURATION
First of we back up the con guration.

cp bigip.conf bigip.conf.bak

CHANGE NAME
Next we amend the old object name with its new name. The -i option ensures that the
changes are saved to the bigip.conf le.

sed -i 's/[OLD NAME]/[NEW NAME]/g' bigip.conf

VERIFY CONFIGURATION
We then ver y the con guration to ensure we don't get any nasty surprises at the point of
loading the new con guration.

b verify load

COMMIT CONFIGURATION
Finally we commit the new con guration to the running con guration.
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b load

EXAMPLE
[root@f5-ltm:Active] config # b virtual list
virtual VS-FOWARD-TEST {
ip forward
destination any:any
mask 0.0.0.0
rules IRULE-SNAT
vlans {
EXTERNAL
INTERNAL
} enable
}
[root@f5-ltm:Active] config # cp bigip.conf bigip.conf.bak
[root@f5-ltm:Active] config # sed -i 's/
VS-FOWARD-TEST/VS-FOWARDPRODUCTION/g' bigip.conf
[root@f5-ltm:Active] config # b verify load
Reading configuration from /config/low_profile_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /defaults/config_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_sys.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /usr/share/monitors/base_monitors.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/profile_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/daemon.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_local.conf.
Validating the configuration ...
[root@f5-ltm:Active] config # b load
Reading configuration from /config/low_profile_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /defaults/config_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_sys.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/bigip_base.conf.
Reading configuration from /usr/share/monitors/base_monitors.conf.
Reading configuration from /config/profile_base.conf.

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Reading
Reading
Reading
Reading
Loading

configuration from /config/profile_base.conf.

configuration from /config/daemon.conf.
configuration from /config/bigip.conf.
configuration from /config/bigip_local.conf.
the configuration ...

[root@f5-ltm:Active] config # b virtual list

virtual VS-FOWARD-PRODUCTION{
ip forward
destination any:any
mask 0.0.0.0
rules IRULE-SNAT
vlans {
EXTERNAL
INTERNAL
} enable
}

V11.X UPDATE
As the bigpipe commands have now been deprecated with v11.x. When using v11.x replace
the following bigpipe commands with the equivalent tmsh commands,
BIGPIPE

TMSH

b verify load

load sys con g verify

b load

load sys con g partitions all

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R DONATO
Ricky Donato is the Founder and Chief Editor of Fir3net.com. He
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currently works as a Network Security engineer and has a keen

interest in automation and the cloud.
You can nd Ricky on Twitter @f3lix001

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