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F5 backup configuration

Hi Guys,

Can anyone tell me if NCM can download the F5 .ucs and do version control? I know that the .ucs is a binary type file.

So can anyone tell me if it can be done, if so, is there any documentation?

Thanks,

Thomas.

  • Did you ever figure out a way to do it? i'm about to try the same thing, but I figured i'd look on Thwack first emoticons_happy.png

  • Looking into this right now, but with the lack of a device template in NCM and the current OS as a *nix, I have not come up with a workaround yet. 

  • We back up our F5 UCS files via NCM but we can't do version control.

    This is a copy of our script (I've removed the IP address of our SCP server, replaced with x.x.x.x). We run SFTP/SCP process on our Solarwinds server and it's setup to allow any user access (no password required). The script also removes all previous ucs files from the F5 device (but directory on Solarwinds server is not self cleaning). You should be able to cut and paste this script and run it manually from the SSH prompt on your F5 device as well to test it out.

    DATE=`date "+%d_%m_%y"`

    HOSTNAME=$(uname -n |cut -d. -f1)

    rm /var/local/ucs/$HOSTNAME-*.ucs

    tmsh save /sys ucs $HOSTNAME-$DATE.ucs

    ${Delay:30}

    scp /var/local/ucs/$HOSTNAME-$DATE.ucs @x.x.x.x:/'F5 UCS files'/$HOSTNAME/$HOSTNAME-$DATE.ucs

    password

  • We originally had UCS backups configured on an older 32bit version of NCM before it went to web interface only.

    That job would run a script on WinScp to synchronize the /var/local/UCS/ directory with a local directory on the Orion server.

    I wanted to continue this process as we already have firewall rules in place to allow the flow.  Unfortunately I handed the task off to Task Scheduler as the OS level instead.  I wish they would put this back into NCM as I liked the reporting functionality at job completion.

  • Native support for binary configs is something we are working on: What We Are Working On For NCM After 7.4 (Updated on July 29, 2015)

    Jiri