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mikand_61525
Jan 10, 2012Nimbostratus
If you for example change config on the active and muck up big time (since F5 doesnt have any commit function, all you do in the gui (and cli) is activated once you click the update-button) you could then just login to the passive unit and tell it to sync its configuration to the active unit (so the active unit gets back a working config).
If this would autosync you wouldnt be able to have this "oops-feature" (unless you each time create a new archive before you do any changes - but reading back an archive I think involves a reboot of the F5 aswell if Im not mistaken compared to the sync option which doesnt need a reboot of the F5 units involved).