[rancid] Re: F5 ("bigip") script

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Mon Apr 20 18:37:10 UTC 2009


Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:08:25PM -0400, marcus gaysek:
> The certs are located in  in the config/ssl/ sub-directories, which would
> need to be download'd. I would think that functionality would be outside of
> Rancid, but if you lost your LTM you would need them to rebuild a new one.
> You capture their names as part of the config.  They are listed in the last
> few lines.

if they're always these files
        {'ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.crt' => 'ShowSslCrt'},
        {'ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key' => 'ShowSslKey'},
is there a "cat" or "more" command?  Their contents should be ascii.

> There is a command in the BigIP devices (GTMs and LTMs) that captures all
> the files and compresses them in a .ucs file.  Once they are created they
> can be downloaded and used to restore a BigIP.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Mike Ashcraft <mashcraft at omniture.com>wrote:
> 
> > LTM = Local Traffic Manager = F5 Big-IP
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:
> > rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of john heasley
> > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:29 AM
> > To: marcus gaysek
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: [rancid] Re: F5 ("bigip") script
> >
> > Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:34:18PM -0400, marcus gaysek:
> > > I have tested with a couple of Cisco devices, including an ASA and I am
> > not
> > > seeing the formatting issues I have seen in the past.
> >
> > thats probably luck.
> >
> > > The LTM config looks great.  The only thing that I can see that needs to
> > be
> >
> > what is 'LTM'?
> >
> > > manually downloaded are the certs. All in all this seems to be a great
> > > improvemant.  Thanks for making it work.
> >
> > The certs are in the configuration?  is there a command or option to get
> > them?
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Teun Vink <teun at moonblade.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 22:29 +0000, john heasley wrote:
> > > > > I don't have a F5 box, but had put together a script while someone
> > had
> > > > > provided remote access, but hadn't finished testing it.  Would
> > someone
> > > > > with one an F5 download
> > > > >       ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.2a10.tar.gz
> > > > > and test it, please.
> > > >
> > > > Just did a quick test, it works fine for me. I had some issues with the
> > > > previous version which seemed to have some ordering issues in the
> > > > output, which resulted in false diffs every single run. I don't see
> > them
> > > > in this version, so I'm happy :)
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > Teun
> > > >
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