Monitoring unsynced configs?

The only thing I can think of to create a shell script that logs into 2 redundant pairs of F5 and performs a md5sum against the bigip.conf file. If they both match then it's sync'd up. if not then it kicks off an email alerting that it is out of sync. This is not bullet proof because the sync detection within F5 is looking beyond simply simpky the file.

 

 

Personally the indicator within the F5's mechanism is a bit iffy. For example I have a shell script that backups up the configs using the normal b commands and then pushes the it down to an ftp backup server. The F5 units immediately indicates a out-of-sync simply when I performed a backup in the CLI. This is why I never trust the sync indicator.