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ianmercer_37853
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Apr 20, 2007

Using iControl to archive BigIP config to a text file under version control

Has anyone done this?     Essentially we would like to be able to keep track of all configuration and rule changes in our version control system. To do that we'd like to dump the configuration ...
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Joe_Pruitt
Apr 20, 2007
You can get a very large portion of the configuration data from the configuration files (/config/bigip.conf, /config/bigip_base.conf). You can use the iControl System::ConfigSync::download_file() method to download the files. This will give you two files that you can easily diff. If you want the entire configuration in a binary package, you can use the System::ConfigSync::save_configuration() method to save a .im package and use the System::ConfigSync::download_configuration() method to download it.

 

 

-or-, you could just use the relevant iControl methods to access the relevant configuration for the objects you are concerned with and create the file manually with your client software.

 

 

-Joe