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safiyet_80777
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Aug 09, 2011

add a member to a external data group with a perl script.

Hi,     I want to write a perl script which adds a member to a external data group. New members are included in a text file that:     x.txt   AAAA;external_data     AAAA is a new...
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Joe_Pruitt
Aug 09, 2011
You are on the right track. With external data groups you need to treat them like flies and use the ConfigSync download/upload_file commands and edit the file contents locally. The logic is really up to you on how you manipulate the content of the file when you have it locally. Check out the PerlConfigSync sample in the iControl codeshare on how to download/upload files.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.PerlConfigSync.ashx

 

 

-Joe