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

[Baird, Josh]

I'll try this today.

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From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Walster
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:08 AM
To: Shain Singh
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] F5 BIG-IP devices - any tricks?

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
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