[rancid] Grab the f5 UCS file and check it into CVS

[Chris Moody]

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UCS files are just "fancy tarballs" of various bits on an F5 (configs,
certs, etc).  As such, they are self-contained entities.

I wrote a separate routine to generate and back up datestamped UCS
files across all my client's F5's.  These lent themselves to quick
restoration of a failed/replaced unit.

RANCID's place on the other hand was not so much for copy/paste type
config restores (as one would do on say, a Cisco IOS node), but more
from the perspective of change tracking across the enterprise.

- -Chris

On 8/1/15 8:02 PM, Matt Almgren wrote:
> Resending as I didn't see this make it to the mailing list.
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*From:* Matt Almgren
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 1, 2015 4:06 PM *To:*
> rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net *Subject:* Grab the f5 UCS file and
> check it into CVS
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> Is there any way Rancid can grab the UCS file from an f5 and then
> store that in CVS?  I'm sure I can figure out a way to issue the
> command.  But I'm not sure how to dump it (is it even in text?) and
> then store it into CVS.
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> Thanks!
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> Matt Almgren, Sr. Networking Engineer
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> 101 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto. CA 94301
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