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

[dl]

sorry that should read f5rancid not f5login.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:30, dl <kokushibyou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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