[rancid] F5 BIG-IP devices - any tricks?

[Matthew Walster]

On 21 March 2012 08:58, Shain Singh <shain.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone managed to do that ? (full shell, read only access) or
>> access using sudo ?
>
> I'd say it may be easier trying to write another Expect script to use
> the tmsh instead. Makes it future proof as I believe F5 is heading
> away from giving complete shell access to their devices.

It would appear someone's made a good effort on producing this code,
but I don't have any non-production boxes to test it against.

Does the following work for you?

http://blog.routedlogic.net/2011/12/08/rancid-monitoring-of-f5s-with-bigip-v11-x/

Matthew Walster