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heskez_36146
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Oct 08, 2015

What do you know about config backup of F5?

Hi,   In my search for a UCS backup solution I found something on the net: The Config Backup F5 solution on Sourceforge, it led me to the page of Nerd of technology, the creator of the product. ...
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Eric_Flores_131
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Oct 09, 2015

To answer your first question, the appliance is a CentOS 6.5 distro. It was hardened accoring to the steps mentioned here. For security purposes I would recommend doing a yum update as soon as you download it as the CentOS distro has had quite a few a updates sense the VM image was posted.

 

As far as trying to make it backup other vendors, you would have to code it. There are 2 parts to the application, a python daemon running the backup logic and an Apache/PHP GUI. Both are tied to each other through a SQLite DB. The python daemon is interfacing with the BIG-IPs through the F5 iControl API.