> 1) You can't export and re-import a config. Just doesn't work.
Besides normal archives (that are just tgz files) or manual config changes and re-loading, try "(tmsh) load sys config merge from-terminal (or file)". It is going to be a gamechanger. ;-) Takes any config snippet from "(tmsh) list..." or the bigip.conf files without rewriting into create/modify statements and add/replace-all-with blocks. No problem to import even large configs like 100KB at once, all as an atomic transaction.
Besides normal archives (that are just tgz files) or manual config changes and re-loading, try "(tmsh) load sys config merge from-terminal (or file)". It is going to be a gamechanger. ;-) Takes any config snippet from "(tmsh) list..." or the bigip.conf files without rewriting into create/modify statements and add/replace-all-with blocks. No problem to import even large configs like 100KB at once, all as an atomic transaction.