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starks951_87602
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Oct 21, 2008

Backing out of the UCS File?

Folks...

 

I have been given a number of UCS files from our BigIp Admins and I need to back out of these files into the base.conf and bigip.conf files so I can load them into a network modeling tool I am working on. I reliaze I can unzip this UCS and I end up with a configsync_blah.im file that I can parse for the terms base.conf and bigip.conf, however there is some odd markers between the sections that look like they might be file headers... ie its not simply a clean line of delineating one file from the next. Additionally there seems to be reference to bigip.conf as well as bigip.conf.otcu, .mtch, .test, etc and I am not sure which it the ACTIVE version of this file.

 

 

With that said do you folks know of a way to take the UCS file and back into files that existed in the original BigIp operating system or should I just hack up a little code to parse for start and stop chracters and paste them into a file named $hostname_base.conf and $hostname_bigip.conf

 

 

Excuse my ignorance as I don't know much about the BigIp platform and was really looking for some outside expertise to solve this little issue.

 

 

Cheers
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  • hwidjaja_37598's avatar
    hwidjaja_37598
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    Oct 22, 2008
    UCS file is actually a gzipped tar file. SOL2250 in AskF5 has more info. You can use 'tar xfz ' to extract it or use WinZIP (rename the UCS file to *.tar.gz).

     

     

    I hope it helps.

     

  • starks951_87602's avatar
    starks951_87602
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    Oct 22, 2008
    Hrmm... tried to rename it as as .tar .tgz .tar.gz, etc but each time my Linux OS says is doesn't look like an archive... I will dig in a little deeper and see if I can find anything...

     

     

    Thanks guys..

     

    -K
  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Oct 22, 2008
    Standard tar commands should work fine:

     

     

    file cs_backup.ucs

     

    cs_backup.ucs: gzip compressed data, was "configsync-2.0-1-Linux-2.4.219.", from Unix, max speed

     

     

    tar tvfz cs_backup.ucs | head

     

    -rw-r--r-- root/apache 133572 2008-10-17 15:23:40 SPEC-Manifest

     

    -rw-r--r-- root/apache 263838 2008-10-17 15:23:47 SPEC-Files

     

    -rw------- root/apache 702 2008-10-17 15:23:37 config/bigip_base.conf.example.net_cs

     

    -rw------- root/apache 0 2008-10-17 15:23:37 config/bigip_local.conf.example.net_cs

     

    -rw-r--r-- tomcat4/tomcat4 9400 2008-10-06 12:30:06 config/bigip.license.example.net_cs

     

    -rw-r--r-- root/root 456 2008-07-01 16:09:55 etc/group.example.net_cs

     

    -r--r--r-- root/root 250 2008-07-01 17:33:37 etc/hosts.example.net_cs

     

    -rw-r--r-- root/root 86 2008-07-01 17:48:49 etc/sysconfig/network.example.net_cs

     

    -rw------- root/apache 4761 2008-10-17 15:23:37 config/bigip.conf

     

    -rw------- root/apache 702 2008-10-17 15:23:37 config/bigip_base.conf.cstmp

     

     

    WinRAR should also be able to open the files. I've seen issues using WinZIP though.

     

     

    The bigip.conf and bigip_base.conf should be in the config directory with .cstmp appended to the names.

     

     

    Aaron