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

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I've been able to get BIG-IP 10.2.2 Build 763.3 Final and BIG-IP
10.2.2 Build 930.0 Hotfix HF3 to work with rancid.
Ubuntu Lucid version, with some patches:

- rancid user on the LTM device has to have full perms (Administrator
with Advanced Shell)
- the expect patch has to be applied (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/#osystems)
- I'm using rancid package 2.3.2-1 but replaced f5login script and
clogin script with the version from 2.3.8

I'm reviewing my changes to verify this is all I've modified, I'll let
you know if I find something else missing (just got it working in Dev
and about to prop the changes to prod so I'll be reviewing it all here
today).

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 05:22, Baird, Josh <jbaird at follett.com> wrote:
> I'll try this today.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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