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khalid_k_50814
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusplink syntax question?
Hello,
I am new to the F5/BIG-IP world and have been struggling with a problem for sometime. I am writing a script which needs to SSH from a WINDOWS machine and remotely send commands to the F5 server.
Below is my PLINK (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html) script (it's just a 1 liner command in italics) and corresponding response:
D:\apps\extpip>plink -ssh endecaF5@140.147.132.22 -pw blah "b node 192.168.192.131 session disable"
BIGpipe parsing error:
012e0008:3: The requested command (b node 192.168.192.131 session disable) is invalid
When I manually SSH into the server and run the same command at the prompt "b node 192.168.192.131 session disable", it executes without any errors.
Can anyone please shed some light on what's going on here?
Thank you very much in advance,
8 Replies
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi,
I just tried using plink to disable sessions on a 10.0.1 and 9.4.6 LTM node and it worked fine. The GUI reflects the session being disabled/enabled. Which LTM version are you running? Can you run 'plink -ssh endecaF5@140.147.132.22 -pw blah "b node list" successfully?
user@host /cygdrive/c/tools/putty
$ ./plink.exe -ssh user@ltm -pw password "b node list"
node 10.41.0.21 {}
node 10.41.1.100 {}
node 10.41.135.3 {}
node 1.2.145.79 {}
node 1.2.45.100 {}
user@host /cygdrive/c/tools/putty
$ ./plink.exe -ssh user@ltm -pw password "b node 10.41.1.100 list"
node 10.41.1.100 {}
user@host /cygdrive/c/tools/putty
$ ./plink.exe -ssh user@ltm -pw password "b node 10.41.1.100 list all"
node 10.41.1.100 {
limit 0
ratio 1
dynamic ratio 1
unchecked
session enable
monitor default
screen none
partition Common
}
user@host /cygdrive/c/tools/putty
$ ./plink.exe -ssh user@ltm -pw password "b node 10.41.1.100 session disable"
Aaron
khalid_k_50814Aaron,
Thanks for the reply.
When I run the command you suggested I get the following error:
C:\>plink -ssh endecaF5@140.147.132.22 -pw blah "b node list"
BIGpipe parsing error:
012e0008:3: The requested command (b node list) is invalid
C:\>
Again, when I manually SSH into the F5 and run the "b node list" from the command line, it returns a list of nodes:
bp>b node list
node 140.147.249.7 {
}
node 192.168.192.101 {
screen CRSAPPS20
}
node 192.168.192.102 {
screen CRSAPPS21
}
node 192.168.192.111 {
screen CRSAPPS24
}
node 192.168.192.112 {
screen CRSAPPS25
}
node 192.168.192.121 {
screen CRSAPPS26
}
node 192.168.192.122 {
screen CRSAPPS27
}
node 192.168.192.131 {
screen CRSAPPS18
}
Running version from the command line, it appears that our BIG-IP is version 9.4.7:
bp>version
Kernel:
Linux 2.4.21-9.4.7.320.0smp
Package:
BIG-IP Version 9.4.7 320.1
Final Edition
Enabled Features:
.... (too much to paste)
I also tried problematically SSH'ing and sending the same remote command through a Java API (http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/), and am getting the same errors.
Any idea on how to proceed?
Thanks again in advance Aaron,- hoolioAh, it's because your user's shell is set to bigpipe not a full shell. If you change the user's "terminal access" to Advanced Shell, it should work fine.
Aaron - khalid_k_50814
Aaron,
Yep, that was the problem!
Thanks tremendously for your help!
Take care, - hoolioNo problem. Glad it worked for you.
Aaron 
Anish_Makil
First of all thanks for this post. i also was able to output the shell output to a .txt file. my question is is there a way to add some comments into the output txt file for example between the output add texts like "---------B interface ------- "- hoolioHi Anish,
You could try something like this:
plink -ssh endecaF5@140.147.132.22 -pw blah "echo '---- b node list ----'; b node list; echo '---- b pool list ----'; b pool list;"
Aaron - Anish_Makilthanks Much you re goodddddddddd, greatly appreciate the fast response
