Altocumulus
Altocumulus
about the only thing I could think of is if I could mount NFS mount a remote filesystem on to the BigIP and then use the External DataGroup option, pointing it at the NFS mountpoint. Not sure if nfs is avaialbel/supported on the BigIps though. I can see why F5 would want to restrict external files to the local file system because of NFS issues caused by network connectivity or failure of the NFS server. Another option to explore would be to scp to a sepecific directory where the external class files will reside, that way they can update them locally and then upload them to the BigIP, onmly issues I can see are
1. Replication. I would have to do a manual replication to the other BigIP, and this assumes the sync includes the /var/classes tree. If not then they will hace to copy the file to both nodes.
2. I think I recall reading somewhere that changes made to external files are not automatically picked up and that you need to restart a service to re-read the files. So there may be some manual intervention still required.
Well I'll plod along trying a few things too see if it's it acheivable and more importantly is stable/reliable.
Craig