Bug ID 509503: tmsh load sys config merge file 'filename' takes signficant time for firewall rulelist configuration

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 11.0.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.3 HF2

Opened: Feb 26, 2015

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

For certain configurations with deeply nested structures in it ex: some of the firewall rule rule-list configuration, requires excessive time for the tmsh load config file merge operation.

Impact

The time for the merge is significantly more than the time needed for load operation.

Conditions

Configurations containing deeply nested structures.

Workaround

If you are affected of long load times during merging a configuration file into existing one, you can instead append the config file to the respective bigip_base.conf or bigip.conf file manually.

Fix Information

The tmsh load sys config merge operation performance was optimized. With this optimization the time for merge operation is slightly greater than the load operation.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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