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Automated ASM Backup - working bash script now to automate or convert to iCall/tcl
Hi All, I have put together a BASH script that when run performs a backup of the ASM policies and copies them to a remote location. The script runs great and I have had it set as a Cron job in my lab setup to automate the backups. Unfortunately, the business does not want a script running as a Cron job on the F5. I have had it suggested to me to use iCall. I have seen only limited information regarding iCall that was written in a way that someone that has never seen iCall could understand. This got me far enough to understand that iCall runs tcl scripts, not bash scripts! The result being if I was to use iCall I would need to re-write the script completely. I am looking for 2 options here: A means to automate running a bash script on the F5. OR detailed information or getting started with iCall - Better yet, converting bash to tcl. To illustrate my issue, my bash script lives on the F5 and does the following: reads a counter value from a file curl command to the management interface and copies a list of ASM policy details to a txt file. greps the policy names from the original txt file to a new txt file. greps the policy IDs from the original txt file to a new txt file. sets a parameter with the current data and time as the value makes a localDirectory using the data and time parameter as the folder name (this ensures a known date of the backup - also ensures you can re-run and get a new folder on the same day if required) uses curl post and get commands to get the policies from the F5. curl upload-file command to copy files to remote smb location adjust the counter performs a cleanup of any files that were created locally. If I switch over to using iCall the above all needs to be done with tcl - I am not sure how much of that is supported. I have found that "echo" is replaced with "puts", is there a "curl", "cat", etc equivalent? Thanks in advance
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saidshow
Feb 22, 2020 Place Technical Forum
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Adding Cron Jobs to the F5 - Is it OK? or should it be avoided?
Hi All, I have created a backup script that would reside on the F5 device, copy all ASM policies to XML and then push them to a remote fileshare. I have planned to have this script run via a cron job on the F5 once per month. When attempting to get approval from the business to implement this on the production devices, concern was raised around setting a cron job on the F5s. I personally did not feel that this would be an issue. Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Are others setting Cron jobs on the F5 or avoiding doing so for any reason in particular. If I want to schedule a script to run every month, is there a better alternative that I could use on the F5? Thank you.
saidshow_251381
Mar 27, 2019 Place Technical Forum
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Webtop links auto published
Hey guys, We're looking to build an automated deployment platform for customers. The problem I am running into is publishing a webtop with only links that the customer has access to. In most scenarios this could be to RDP sessions, vpn's, etc. I haven't found a way to do this via an irule, xml, text doc, smoke signal, etc yet. Alternatives I've also considered include AD (i.e. AD lookup, pull attributes, publish links for the three devices the user has listed). Does anyone have any thoughts on reading in a file, list, or lookup to then create objects on the webtop? I appreciate any thoughts or insights.
kevin_flynn_180
Nov 22, 2016 Place Technical Forum
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