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brad_anton_1025
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Mar 13, 2006

Using Include's for bigip.conf to define classes

i wanted to have a list of classes defined in a file other than bigip.conf. this way i can dynamically update the classes via ssh without touching the config. is there a way to specify include files f...
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Joe_Pruitt
Mar 13, 2006
One of the Data Group types is external which can point to a file in either the /config or /var/class directories. Here's an example bigip.conf reference to an external string class

 

 

class image_types_ext extern {
   type string
   filename "/var/class/image_types.txt"
}

 

 

Configuration help is available in the GUI or you can type "bigpipe class help" for commmand line help.

 

 

Keep in mind that simply overwriting the contents of the file won't cause the BIG-IP code to reload it into it's running configuration. You will either have to reload the config with a "bigpipe load" command. A recent forum post also covered how to maintain external class lists with iControl.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=28&view=topic&forumid=1&postid=6384

 

Click here

 

 

-Joe