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Bernhard_M
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Jul 17, 2014

Create/Modify ACLs from within TMSH

Hi,

 

Is there a possibility to add acl-entries via tmsh to an existing acl?

 

Background is the task to migrate a Firepass to BigIP. I exported the config to xml. Now i want to generate tmsh-commands to import acls (about 5500 acl entries spread to about 900 acls).

 

so far i only found the command to create new acls with all entries in one line (which becomes very large lines if access-list contains 10 or more lines).

 

tia, bernhard

 

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
management
security
TMSH

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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Jul 17, 2014

    This, I believe, is one of those commands that doesn't allow additive editing. So because it looked like an interesting scripting challenge, here's a Bash script you can use to add acl entries to an existing acl:

    !/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "" ] || [ "$2" == "" ]
then
    echo "Syntax error:   name>  "
    exit
fi

acllist=`tmsh list apm acl test-acl one-line | sed -n "s/.*{ { \([^']*\) } }.*/\1/p"`

IFS={ read -a array <<< "$acllist"

acl="{"
for i in "${array[@]}"
do
    acltmp="{ `echo $i |sed "s/}//"` }"
    acl="$acl $acltmp"
done
acl="$acl { $2 } }"

tmsh modify apm acl $1 entries $acl

    This is what your command line would look like:

    ./addacl.sh test-acl "action reject dst-subnet 0.0.0.0/0 src-subnet 10.60.0.0/24"

    The first param is the acl name, and the second is the acl entry string.

  • k_kirchev_28437's avatar
    k_kirchev_28437
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    Oct 24, 2017

    Hello mr Stewart. Could you answer if there is a script which can convert Cisco ACE ACL(with 1800 ACE) to an F5 acl. I saw how I could take an acl entry from tmsh and make 1800 rows but it will be very annoying. I already used script to convert ACE loadbalance config to LTM but It could transfer ACL. Please help or at least give some advice.