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Steven_Williams
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusBacking up F5 UCS file with solarwinds NCM
I am trying to accomplish an f5 backup using, eventually, solarwinds NCM module, but working on the script to use. I want to backup the UCS file and offload it to a SCP/SFTP server.
Some things ...
mimlo_61970
Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbusto specifically answer the question on how to name the file, from a bash shell(not a tmos shell) you can do:
tmsh save /sys ucs /var/local/ucsbackup/config_backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.ucs
Where %Y%m%d is the date format. see the man page on date for more options, the above is YYYYMMDD, or 20140819 for today.
As far as the rest, what precisely is the process? Are you wanting to have the F5 create the UCS, push it to Solarwinds via SFTP, and then cleanup? Does solarwinds support key-based authentication?
Steven_WilliamsSolarwinds is just going to run the commands that I enter into the script. But when the prompt stops at password and waits for a password to enter...I need a way to tell the script to "expect this" and "enter this"- Steven_Williamsran into another issue: [user@f5:Active] ~ tmsh save /sys ucs /var/local/ucsbackup/config_backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.ucs Saving active configuration... [user@f5:Active] ~ ls /var/local/ucsbackup/ config_backup-20140819.ucs config_backup.ucs [user@f5:Active] ~ sftp f5backup@10.247.160.208 Connecting to 10.247.160.208... f5backup@10.247.160.208's password: sftp> put /var/local/ucsbackup/config_backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.ucs / File "/var/local/ucsbackup/config_backup-`date" not found. sftp> I guess I would just have to move the whole folder to get around not having to specify the exact name of the file?
- mimlo_61970The SFTP shell will not understand the `date` syntax, only the bash shell will. You could and use sftp in batch mode, but it looks like Solarwinds NCM support SCP, so I would recomend you go that route cleanup a bit with a variable filename="/var/local/ucsbackup/config_backup-`date +%Y%m%d`.ucs" tmsh save /sys ucs ${filename} scp ${filename} f5backup@10.247.160.208: (and enter password if you haven't set up key based authentication yet) Of course beyond that comes all the error check, notifications if it fails and so on. Have you looked at this? http://sourceforge.net/projects/f5configbackup/
