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splion_86861
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Apr 28, 2011

Read Configuration from virtual servers

Hey,     is there a way to read the complete configuration from a virtual server with iControl?     My idea is the backup of a given configuration and a restore later, respectively on an o...
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Apr 28, 2011
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