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Unfortunately the BIG-IP VE appliance has not bash shell access, therefore you cannot execute any of these commands. Ref: sol2595: Activating and installing a license file from the command line

get_dossier -b ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDEFG.

grep -i "Registration Key" /config/bigip.license.

tmsh show /sys hardware | grep ‘Registration Key’.

Some articles describe the use of commands like the following to achieve activation:

F5 SSH PROXY HOW TO

Generally you can find a lot of F5 articles and forum posts describing how to install a license again and activate the device. Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed. For example when running it will Standalone)(INOPERATIVE)(/Common)(tmos)# load sys configĠ1070356:3: Load balancing feature not licensed. The expired license also causes a lot of other issue that can manifest in different ways. You will also notice other signs that there is something wrong like the work INOPERATIVE. Registration key ABCDE- ABCDE – ABCDE – ABCDE – ABCDEF Last login: Thu Jun 25 23:10:38 2015 from Standalone)(INOPERATIVE)(/Common)(tmos)# show sys license Using keyboard-interactive authentication. As you can see from the following screenshot the license was expired.

As said I was lucky enough to have SSH access to I logged to the appliance and check the license by running. In such cases I wasn’t able to find a solution and had to reinstall the BIG-IP device and redo all the configurations. If you don’t have SSH access to the appliance you are in big trouble.

Luckily I had a user with SSH access to the F5 BIG-IP VE appliance. As shown in the following screenshot it got stuck in “ Configuration Utility restarting…” and I wasn’t able to login. I first noticed that there was an issue with the appliance when I tried to open the BIG-IP Configuration utility. I was using a 45 days license which I failed to reactivate it got expired. Recently I had an issue where my BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Global Traffic Manager (GTM) devices had an expired license.

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The full lab logical design can be seen HERE. We will focus on one of the latest VE versions 11.6.x where most of the usual methods to reactivate will not work. When the license is expired the BIG-IP Configuration utility gets stuck in “Configuration Utility restarting…” and you cannot login. In this article we will see how we can reactivate a F5 BIG-IP VE (Virtual Edition) Appliance that has an expired license.