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Jason_Keating
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Aug 18, 2009

Graphing bigip.conf

Hi,

In the same fashion as Michael Thompson's work on config graphs (see link at bottom of post)I am parsing bigip.conf to n-triples for use in RDF browsers etc (ie. Gruff, Cytoscape etc)

I'm only parsing BIG-IP 9.4.3 Build 1.4 bigip.conf files so far, and since we have not yet got around to upgrades I need bigip.conf files from BIG-IP versions > 9.4.3

I'd be very thankful if someone was able to supply some for me to parse, any and all would be greatly appreciated as I'd like support as many versions as possible.

I'll also publish the result here, once it's relatively complete, atm I am only parsing out virtual servers, destinations, pools and members as this is the information I'm first interested in - but each time I render a graph I see more possibilities so it's growing pretty quick.

I also plan to integrate with AllegroGraph.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

J

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/jason/archive/2009/01/21/me-caveman-need-picture-bigip-config-visualizer.aspx
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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Aug 19, 2009
    The virtual server definition format hasn't changed too much between any version of 9.x or 10.x, so you shouldn't have to handle too many different cases. You might have to read through the matching close brace of a VIP in 10.x as there are nested curly braces within the definition: 

     
 9.4.5: 
  
 virtual example_http_vs { 
    snat automap 
    pool example_http_pool 
    destination 1.1.1.1:http 
    ip protocol tcp 
    profiles 
       http 
       tcp-lan-optimized 
 } 
  
 10.0.1 
  
 virtual example_http_vs { 
    snat automap 
    pool example_http_pool 
    destination 1.1.1.1:443 
    ip protocol 6 
    profiles { 
       http {} 
       server.example.com_clientssl { 
          clientside 
       } 
       tcp {} 
    } 
 }

    Aaron