Turn off CLI Paging

That's odd. if you run 'b list' on the command line of the BIG-IP, the output is paged? I don't see this on 9.4.4, 9.4.0 or 9.2.x.

 

 

Regardless, most complete back up of the BIG-IP configuration is a UCS file. For details on UCS files, check SOL4423:

 

 

SOL4423: Overview of UCS archives

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/400/sol4423.html?sr=811838

 

 

Aaron

Thanks for the info Aaron. I'm new to BigIP so I wasn't aware of the UCS file.

 

I use putty to SSH into the BigIP so I'm not sure if that makes a difference but yes, running the "b list" command shows pages output and a prompt doesn't appear until I page through the output

Aaron, is there anyway to copy the ucs file to another server via TFTP or FTP/SFTP or some other means?

Not automatically. You could script the creation of the UCS on the BIG-IP using cron. The BIG-IP has the openssh package installed, so you can use SCP or SFTP in a script on the BIG-IP. Or you could run the script on the remote host.

 

 

I posted an example script in a past thread (Click here). If you end up using it, could you post an updated version to the thread and/or the Codeshare (Click here)? You may want to add logic which checks to see if the configuration has changed before either creating the UCS or copying the UCS to a remote host. You could also clear out old UCS files if they've already been copied to the remote host.

 

 

Aaron

Hamish, thanks for the reply. that looks easy enough.

gosh even the cisco boxes have a way to change it... term len 0

 

how annoying-- it is assuming a very old character cell VT type terminal.. it even sends out control sequences.

 

very tough when it is actually a script trying to work with the information/results.

 

there should be a way to set the display type and length, isn't there?

 

 

 

setting the terminal type on the client could perhaps cure this problem without having to issue a command on the host. i'm trying some variations such as 'vanilla' but also setting the page width and height to large numbers. getting much better results!

 

 

 

On version 10.2.1 from tmsh you can disable paging:

 

(Active)(tmos) modify cli preference pager disabled

 

to re-enable:

 

(Active)(tmos) modify cli preference pager enabled

 

 

Not sure on what the equivalent bigpipe command is.

 

 

Kevin