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CraigM_17826
Aug 10, 2011Altocumulus
URI redirects using external files
Hi everyone,
I have a rather slack web team which because of issues with the CMS they use they prefer to have the BigIP to do a lot of URI based redirects. At first I didn't mind too much, b...
Michael_Yates
Aug 10, 2011Nimbostratus
Another option would be to use the Crontab on the BIG-IP to SCP the files to itself (self-update) on a given schedule (I would suggest SSH Keys...and I am also quite cautious about giving access to the devices, so I prefer that the devices themselves go fetch).
That would allow you to have a central location for pickup and negate your replication issues.
It could also allow you to advertise a replication schedule that the update any update requests could be published by.
The biggest problem that I see with this is validation. If an improperly formatted update file is implemented you could get some strange behavior.
Food for thought.
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