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kgaigl
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Nov 16, 2022

Changing Management-ip in an HA pair setup

Hello, I've read this Article: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62249587 but I've a question: if the management IP is not involved in Failover Network ot Config Sync, do I need to delete the De...
  • Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh's avatar
    Nov 16, 2022

    kgaigl , 
    it is highly recommended to do that in a maintenance Window , specially if you have " voice " services or FTP applications on you Big-ip device. 
    if your services are web application only , you will not feel by impact during your action. 
    > I have do this before with 2 devices in HA , on of them was faulty and when getting the RMA new device , I installed it with the other node without any impact. 
    - I Broke the HA and device Trust and Configure the HA and build the trust from Scratch again , and it worked fine. 
    > only Follow these KBs : 
    This you have shared it : 
    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K62249587
    > Re-build Device Trust : 
    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K42161405

    but it is better to do it in a maintenance Window. 

    Regards