BIG-IP Configuration Visualizer - iControl Style

I posted almost two years ago to the day on a cool tool called BIG-IP Config Visualizer, or BCV, that one of our field engineers put together that utilizes a BIG-IP config parser and GraphViz to crea...
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rib63: You'd run this on another host, but you don't need to copy the configs around. When you run the script you specify where to connect to, and it collects all the configuration data over SOAP. Any firewall will need a suitable rule allowing the port (443/https usually).