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Johnmec_45780
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Mar 30, 2005

BIGIP remote config file transfer

Hi !     I hope this has not been asked already..     Is there any way to easily transfer and load bigip main config files (bigip_base.conf and bigip.conf) from a remote host? I ...
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Joe_Pruitt
Mar 30, 2005
David, The System::ConfigSync interface contains a method to do just this. Take a look at the download_file() and upload_file() methods.

 

 

FileTransferContext download_file( 
     in String file_name, 
     in long chunk_size, 
     inout long file_offset 
 ); 
  
 void upload_file( 
     in String file_name, 
     in FileTransferContext file_context 
 );

 

 

We also have the methods upload_configuration() and download_configuration() that are shortcuts for downloading the full configuration archives (*.ucs files).

 

 

As for sample code, you are in luck! Take a peek at the /sdk/samples/soap/perl/soaplite/System/ConfigSync.pl sample application. It illustrates most of the methods in the ConfigSync interface including the download_file() and upload_file() methods.

 

 

As for the bigip.conf file, if you run the script as follows

 

 

./ConfigSync.pl bigip_address 443 username password download_file /config/bigip.conf bigip.conf

 

 

it will download the bigip.conf file into the local directory.

 

 

-Joe