bigpipe script to create pools/virtual servers

Use tmsh instead, bigpipe will eventually go away. There are a bunch of tmsh scripts over in the wiki.

 

 

Create Pool Members: http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/tmsh/CreatePoolMembers.html Click Here

 

 

This next one is for building a GTM configuration, but the process would be very similar for building pools and a virtual server if you swapped out some commands:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/tmsh/BuildGTMConfiguration.html Click Here

Thanks for the reply Jason, I will most certainly look into tmsh scripting, but this is more of an urgent need since I have to get everything created this evening. Can someone help me with the bigpipe commands to just get me over the hump?

if just trying to create a simple pool with that information above?

bigpipe:

b pool mypool_HTTPS { lb method member least conn monitor all bigipaspx_https member { 10.5.6.30:443 10.5.6.31:443 } }

tmsh cli:

create ltm pool mypool_HTTPS load-balancing-mode least-connections-member monitor bigipaspx_https members add { 10.5.6.30:443 10.5.6.31:443 }

With the tmsh cli, you get context sensitive help with the "?" or the tab. Highly recommended going forward. You get only offline help with bigpipe.

Awesome, so my syntax was a little incorrect, thanks Jason. Can you help with my virtual syntax? I am using the following, but I can't figure out how to specify profiles, so this is giving me an error that I need to specify the HTTP ofr FASTHTTP profile:

 

 

bigpipe virtual myvirtual_HTTPS { destination 10.5.5.43:443 persist Simple rules myiRule }

 

 

Can we also specify the SSL Client and Server profiles in this command? I need to configure those for this virtual.

 

 

Thanks for all your help, this is going to really speed implementation up tonight.

For bigpipe format, you can check an existing object in the bigip.conf or bigip_base.conf. As Jason pointed out a while ago, you can escape the new lines using single quotes. So if the virtual server looks like this in the bigip.conf:

virtual www.example.com_http_vs {
   snat automap
   pool ubuntu_external_http_pool
   destination 10.1.0.15:80
   ip protocol tcp
   rules vs_name_to_redirect_rule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}

you can use this to create it:

 
 b virtual www.example.com_http_vs '{ 
    snat automap 
    pool ubuntu_external_http_pool 
    destination 10.1.0.15:80 
    ip protocol tcp 
    rules vs_name_to_redirect_rule 
    profiles { 
       http {} 
       tcp {} 
    } 
 }' 
 

Note the single quotes before the first curly brace and after the last curly brace.

Aaron

HUGE THANKS to both of you....this saves me tons of time. Much appreciated.

Is there a way to escape to a new line using tmsh? similar to '{ in bigpipe?

 

 

Thxs... Leonardo