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Lidev
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Aug 01, 2023
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iApp F5-Automated-backup on 15.1.7

Hi folks, We try to use iApp F5-Automated-backup on F5 BIG-IP v15.1.7 (https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-automated-backup-iapp) Everything works fine (see the log below) but UCS was not copy on re...
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  • Lidev's avatar
    Lidev
    Aug 02, 2023

    Hi JRahm,

    Digging more on remote server and the audit log, we found that when the remote copy (SCP) is running, iApp changed the path and add a dot . at the beginning of the path 🤔

    type=EXECVE msg=audit(1690960028.843:897): argc=3 a0="scp" a1="-t" a2="./f5-backup"

    We removed the dot . in BACKUPDIRECTOR iApp section, updated iApp and it's finaly works 😊

    BACKUPDIRECTORY/${fname_noext}BACKUPFILENAMEEXTENSION_WITHDOT* \${username}@\${server}:./\${directory} 2>> /var/tmp/scriptd.out\n\tscp_result=\$?\n\trm -f /var/tmp/TMSHAPPNAME_scp.key\n\treturn \$scp_result\n}\n\nscp_function" > $scriptfile
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JRahm
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Do you have any diagnostic data on BIG-IP or remote server? I'm not sure what condition here is not covered in the iApp:

 

exec echo "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) STARTING" >> /var/tmp/scriptd.out
exec logger -p local0.info "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) STARTING"
if { [catch {exec $scriptfile}] } {
    exec echo "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) FAILED ErrorCode: $errorCode" >> /var/tmp/scriptd.out
    exec echo "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) FAILED ErrorInfo: $errorInfo" >> /var/tmp/scriptd.out
    exec echo "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) FAILED (check for errors above)" >> /var/tmp/scriptd.out
    exec logger -p local0.crit "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) FAILED (see /var/tmp/scriptd.out for errors)"
} else {
    exec echo "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) SUCCEEDED" >> /var/tmp/scriptd.out
    exec logger -p local0.notice "f5.automated_backup iApp TMSHAPPNAME: $fname_log REMOTE COPY (SCP) SUCCEEDED"
}

 

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Lidev
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Aug 02, 2023

Hi JRahm,

Digging more on remote server and the audit log, we found that when the remote copy (SCP) is running, iApp changed the path and add a dot . at the beginning of the path 🤔

type=EXECVE msg=audit(1690960028.843:897): argc=3 a0="scp" a1="-t" a2="./f5-backup"

We removed the dot . in BACKUPDIRECTOR iApp section, updated iApp and it's finaly works 😊

BACKUPDIRECTORY/${fname_noext}BACKUPFILENAMEEXTENSION_WITHDOT* \${username}@\${server}:./\${directory} 2>> /var/tmp/scriptd.out\n\tscp_result=\$?\n\trm -f /var/tmp/TMSHAPPNAME_scp.key\n\treturn \$scp_result\n}\n\nscp_function" > $scriptfile
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    JRahm
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    Aug 02, 2023

    Nice! Glad you got it working...