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.
Running tmsh commands on multiple devices at once
Hey DevCentral, I was hoping BIG-IQ CM would make this a little easier to do but that isn't the case. I need to run the same tmsh commands on multiple devices at once, instead of taking hours to do them one by one. This is something I've never attempted, as it is a new concept for me. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to do that?
Manual vs Auto Sync
Hi we've had F5s in our organisation for a while now. Just recently we've developed some automation scripts that use the REST interface to the LTM module. Our problem is that our F5 HA pairs are currently manually synced. We'd like to turn on auto sync so that we can fully automate our changes but there has been some resistance within the organisation. My questions are... What are other people doing in this situation? Is auto sync viewed as an evolution of the F5 capability or just another feature available for use where appropriate? What barriers are there to transitioning from manual to auto sync?