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Preparing to Upgrade Devices in Your DCD Cluster and the BIG-IQ with Minimal Downtime
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Preparing to Upgrade Devices in Your DCD Cluster and the BIG-IQ with Minimal Downtime
Download the BIG-IQ software image from F5 Networks
Downloading a software image from F5
Networks is the first step to making it available to install on the BIG-IQ
system.
The
software image is now available for you to upload to your BIG-IQ system to
make it available for this upgrade.
Upload the BIG-IQ software image
Before you can upload the software image to the BIG-IQ system, you must have first
downloaded it from the F5 Downloads site, downloads.f5.com.
You upload the BIG-IQ version software image to the primary BIG-IQ system to make it available for this upgrade.
- At the top of the screen, click System.
- On the left click .
- Click the Upload Image button.
- Click the Choose File button and go to the location to which you downloaded the image, and click the Open button to upload it to BIG-IQ.
Confirm that alerts and events can be sent to an alternative device in a Data Collection Device cluster if one goes off line
Before you start the upgrade process, confirm that
your managed BIG-IP devices can send alerts or events to more than one device in the Data Collection Device cluster so that when a particular device in the Data Collection Devicecluster is being upgraded, data
automatically routes to another device in the Data Collection Devicecluster.
- Review the data routing configuration for all of the managed BIG-IP devices that send data to your DCD cluster. If you find a BIG-IP device that is configured to send data to only one device in a DCD cluster, change that configuration before proceeding. Refer to the BIG-IP device documentation on support.f5.com for details on how to configure the BIG-IP device for DCD cluster routing.
- Review the monitoring configuration for all of the managed BIG-IP devices that send data to your DCD cluster. Make sure that each BIG-IP device is configured to send data to an alternate device in the DCD cluster if another device goes offline. If you find a BIG-IP device that is not configured with appropriate monitors, change that configuration before proceeding. Refer to the BIG-IP device documentation on support.f5.com for details on how to configure BIG-IP monitors correctly.
