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Josh_41258's avatar
Josh_41258
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Mar 05, 2012

TMSH oddness

All I'm trying to do is save a running configuration to a file in v11:

 

 

[admin@ltm:/S1-green-P:Active] scripts tmsh sys config save file my_file

 

Syntax Error: unexpected argument "save"

 

 

 

 

Why doesn't this work? If I go into the tmsh shell, and type each command, it works fine. I need to run this command non-interactively (without going into the tmsh) shell, though. No more bigpipe, though.

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

Josh

 

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4 Replies

  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Mar 05, 2012
    Hi Josh,

     

     

    This works for me logged in as admin:

     

     

    tmsh save /sys config file mybackup

     

    Saving running configuration...

     

    /var/local/scf/mybackup

     

    /var/local/scf/mybackup.tar

     

     

    Or without the slash for sys:

     

     

    tmsh save sys config file mybackup

     

    Saving running configuration...

     

    /var/local/scf/mybackup

     

    /var/local/scf/mybackup.tar

     

     

    Which 11.1 version are you running? Can you try on 11.1HF2 which was released last week?

     

     

    Aaron
  • Josh_41258's avatar
    Josh_41258
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    Mar 05, 2012
    Aaron,

     

     

    Thanks. These boxes are actually running HF2 already. I guess my syntax was wrong?

     

     

     

    [admin@wr-dc-ltm-b2100-p01:/S1-green-P:Active] config tmsh save /sys config file mybackup

     

    Saving running configuration...

     

    /var/local/scf/mybackup

     

    /var/local/scf/mybackup.tar

     

     

    I was doing "tmsh sys config save," not "tmsh save sys config" .. although, I'm not quite sure why my version didn't work. Maybe I need to read up on tmsh some more. :)

     

     

    Thanks,

     

     

    Josh
  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Mar 05, 2012
    Yeah it was a syntax error. The format for tmsh is generally action -> object -> parameters.

     

     

    The bigpipe mappings page is a good cheat sheet:

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/tmsh/BigpipeMappings.html

     

     

    Or you can check the full tmsh guide:

     

    https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-tmsh-11-1-0.html

     

     

    Aaron
  • Josh_41258's avatar
    Josh_41258
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    Mar 06, 2012
    Oh, nice! The bigpipe mappings reference is an excellent resource. Thanks for sharing.

     

     

    Josh