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Eddy_161863's avatar
Eddy_161863
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May 06, 2016

data group list import- invalid format

I have a list of 100 IPs that I want to use in an irule. I have created a data group list and was trying to import it but keep getting the error message that "the data group external file has an inv...
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Doug572_317653
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May 30, 2017

Very frustrating. He simply wants to know the format of the file to be imported to create a datagroup of IP addresses. Will no one answer that question? I'm struggling to find the same information, which should be readily available.

 

Stan_Ward's avatar
Stan_Ward
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May 30, 2017

cjunior, Thank you for providing the info; it was the lead I needed.

But I share the frustration; I've been working on that exact problem for the last hour, and stumbled across this thread while trying to solve it. The external format does not match that of the internal data group ip type, and all of the references I saw to using the above format were in the context of v9, so I ignored them. Does anyone know where the definitive reference is? I only know of Jason Rahm's article on external data groups, and it doesn't show an example of ip type, just string and integer.

However, after experimenting, I found that these formats also work:

host 172.31.140.222 := "Host A",

network 172.31.140.223/32 := "Host B",

network 172.31.140.0/24 := "Network C",

Cheers,

Stan