I've been using F5 LTMs for years, and a while back I decided to create a script to automate the configuration backup. Today I added that backup source code to my GitHub account to share the love for anyone that's interested.
Here's the overview of what it does:
1. Connect to each device, create a .ucs file, download the .ucs file and the bigip.conf file
2. Removes local .ucs files older than 30 days
3. Commits bigip.conf files to Subversion
4. Send notification email if any errors are encountered
The script has the following requirements:
* List of F5 LTM IP addresses that you want included in the backup
* SSH key-based authentication established for each target F5 device
* Email address to recieve alerts when backups fail
* SVN repository to hold the backups (this could be converted to git fairly easily)
Its been running flawlessly for me for several years now. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Here's the overview of what it does:
1. Connect to each device, create a .ucs file, download the .ucs file and the bigip.conf file
2. Removes local .ucs files older than 30 days
3. Commits bigip.conf files to Subversion
4. Send notification email if any errors are encountered
The script has the following requirements:
* List of F5 LTM IP addresses that you want included in the backup
* SSH key-based authentication established for each target F5 device
* Email address to recieve alerts when backups fail
* SVN repository to hold the backups (this could be converted to git fairly easily)
Its been running flawlessly for me for several years now. Check it out and let me know what you think.
