creation of LocalLB::VirtualServer not reflecting in /config/*.conf files

Posted By snovakov on 02/07/2012 09:39 AM

 

Hi mhite!

 

No, one must do a System.ConfigSync.save_configuration() call to save the config change you've made.

 

It is quite slow, mostly because (as I found out the other day), the 'SaveMode' type that is listed as 'SAVE_HIGH_LEVEL_CONFIG' is not supported anymore, at least in the Perl version of iControl that I am using (10.2.0).

 

I have to use the 'SAVE_FULL' mode, which can take quite long if the configuration is "large" on the F5 Big IP box you're targeting.

 

I just checked the code for v10.2 and from what I can tell, System.ConfigSync.save_configuration() supports the SAVE_FULL, SAVE_HIGH_LEVEL_CONFIG, and SAVE_BASE_LEVEL_CONFIG parameters. For SAVE_HIGH_LEVEL_CONFIG, it will issue a "bigpipe save" command. For SAVE_BASE_LEVEL_CONFIG, it will issue a "bigpipe base save" command. For SAVE_FULL, it does some other calls to "bigpipe config save" with optional encryption parameters.

 

 

For v11 and above, it uses the tmsh equivalents.

 

 

Are you seeing errors when trying to run save_configuration() with SAVE_BASE_LEVEL_CONFIG?

 

 

-Joe