Read Configuration from virtual servers

iControl wasn't built to be able to extract the config for a single object. While you could do so by individually querying all the associated get_ methods and storing those values separately, it might be better to just download the configuration with the System.ConfigSync.download_configuration() method which will get you the entire bigip.conf (or bigip_base.conf) files. Granted, you'll have to strip out the pieces you need for just your virtual, but at least all of the configuration objects will be present.

 

 

-Joe

 

Hey,

 

 

thank's for your reply. I assumed this.

 

 

Can i call the bigpipe-tool remotely with iControl?

 

 

I use the bigpipe export on the device to get the actual config and i compare a concatination of

 

bigip{,_base,_local_sys}.conf with this. The files not 100 percent identical in some sections.

 

What's the better base for configuration, the bigpipe-output or the bigip-config-files?

 

 

bye

 

Andreas

 

Unfortunately there is no "bigpipe" call from iControl. I actually proposed this to PD a while back but it never made it into the product. Not sure of the best solution for storing output into a way to merge back in. Either way should work as long as you are importing back into a "like" version of LTM.

 

 

-Joe