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Steven_Williams
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Aug 19, 2014

Backing 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 ...
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mimlo_61970
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Aug 19, 2014

to 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?

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Steven_Williams
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Aug 19, 2014
Solarwinds 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"