HOWTO - Restore a BIGIP from UCS¶
This HOWTO document describes the changes required to restore a BIGIP in the Lab Environment
Situations from the lab may cause the need to restore a BIGIP, the lab is seeded with 3 UCS files per BIGIP (matching the modules) from different parts of Class 1.
Credential reminder: GUI: adminadmin SSH: rootdefault
Task 1 - Import the existing UCS into BIG-IP¶
UCS files are located in the in_case_of_emergency folder on desktop of the Linux Jumphost
Complete the following steps:
- Login to the BIG-IP GUI
- Click System -> Archives -> Upload
- Click Choose File find the desired UCS in the specified folder and open
- Click Upload
Task 2 - Use TMSH to restore the UCS¶
Because the dynamic license within this environment we must specify the
no-license
flag, which is only available via TMSH commands.
Complete the following steps:
- Open Root Terminal from the Desktop
- SSH in the BIGIP needing the UCS restore, example
ssh root@10.1.1.10
- Issue the
tmsh
command to switch shells - To restore the specific UCS file issue the following command:
load sys ucs (name_of_ucs) no-license