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

[Colin Stubbs]

Hey Matt

I havn't done any more work on this recently. But my opinion is you will
want to be using tmsh commands to get the partition configuration and not
trying to dump files directly. You just won't get everything otherwise.

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

https://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/aft/2158962/asg/44/Default.aspx

-Colin

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On 31 October 2012 12:13, Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> wrote:

> Mick,
>
> On 23 October 2012 10:56, Mick O'Rourke <mkorourke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone already done any work on the f5rancid script to work with F5
>> 11.x configuration partitions? ie. read out
>> /config/partition/partition_xyz/bigip.conf etc etc
>>
>> Looking at  current master f5rancid from
>> https://github.com/dotwaffle/rancid-git/tree/master/bin it doesn't
>> appear to be present.
>>
>
> I don't have an F5 running 11.x at the moment, but if you could supply an
> idea of the mapping, I'd be very interested. For instance, is it just a
> case of adding a glob such as "/config/partition/partition_*/bigip.conf" or
> is there something "new" that's going to make me sigh horrible? ;)
>
> M
>
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