iControlREST and Curl to save and download ASM policies

Hi Hannes,

Great advice again. I have taken what you provided and scripted it up. Just replace username and password and the IPs and off it goes. This script will create a folder with the current AEST date and time and place all the xml backups in that folder.

Since I create 3 files in the script, I also remove them at the end. If I don't remove them they will grow every time the script is executed.

I hope this helps someone else half as much as you helped me.

!/bin/bash

curl -ku 'username:password' -X GET https://x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/asm/policies | jq '.items[] | "pol_name:" + .name + ";api_id:" + .id' >> asmDetailsLAB.txt
cat asmDetailsLAB.txt |grep pol_name |cut -d":" -f2 |cut -d";" -f1 >> asmPoliciesLAB.txt
cat asmDetailsLAB.txt |grep pol_name |cut -d":" -f3 |cut -d'"' -f1 >> asmIDsLAB.txt


folderName="$(zdump AEST)"
mkdir -p asmLabBackup
mkdir "asmLabBackup/""$folderName"

paste -d'\n' asmPoliciesLAB.txt asmIDsLAB.txt | while read asmPolicy && read asmIDs;do
echo $asmPolicy $asmIDs
curl -ku 'username:password' -X POST https://x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/asm/tasks/export-policy -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"filename":"'$asmPolicy'","policyReference":{"link":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/asm/policies/'$asmIDs'"}}'
curl -ku 'username:password' -X GET https://x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/asm/file-transfer/downloads/$asmPolicy >> asmLabBackup/"$folderName"/$asmPolicy.xml
done

rm asmDetailsLAB.txt
rm asmPoliciesLAB.txt
rm asmIDsLAB.txt