Upload iFiles to Bigip from Samba share

Hi Adrien_Dopchie 

I wouldn't recommend having the BIG-IP be the controlling agent here, but if you want to do that, the smbclient executable is on the host and can be used with a bash script like:

#!/bin/bash

SMBSRV="smbserver"
SMBSHARE="share_name"
SMBUSER="username"
SMBPASS="password"
FNAME="CRLupdates"

smbclient //$SMBSRV/$SMBSHARE -U $SMBUSER%$SMBPASS -c "get $FNAME"

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "$FNAME retrieved"
else
    echo "$FNAME not retrieved"
fi

You could then have an iCall script with a periodic handler at whatever interval you wish execute the bash script, then create an iFile from its contents.

Personally, I'd move all the control off the BIG-IP and have an externally managed process (could also be a simple script, but documented in an operational procedure) check the share for updates to that file and upload them to BIG-IP and then modify the iFile as needed.