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Aug 09, 2011

add a member to a external data group with a perl script.

Hi,

 

 

I want to write a perl script which adds a member to a external data group. New members are included in a text file that:

 

 

x.txt

 

AAAA;external_data

 

 

AAAA is a new member. but I do not want to lose old members also. so I wrote a perl script that is in below.

 

 

after running perl script, external_data group file would be :

 

 

"AAAA",

 

IlZWVlYiLA==

 

 

As a result, the txt data is written normally but old data is written by a different format.

 

 

I want to run script in f5, so I must use perl script.

 

 

Please help me.

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

!/usr/bin/perl

 

 

use SOAP::Lite;

 

use integer;

 

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

sub listStrings

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

sub listStrings()

 

{

 

open(FILE, 'x.txt') or die "Can not read file!"; datagroup okundu

 

 

my $data_file = '/etc/hys/temp.txt';

 

open TEMPFILE, ">$data_file" or die "can't open $data_file $!";

 

binmode(TEMPFILE);

 

while () {

 

chomp; no newline

 

s/.*//; no comments

 

s/^\s+//; no leading white

 

s/\s+$//; no trailing white

 

next unless length; anything left?

 

my ($var, $value) = split(/\s*;\s*/, $_, 2);

 

$sclass_members = $var;

 

$sdata_group = $value;

 

$sclass_members = "\"" . "$sclass_members" . "\",";

 

 

$soapResponse = $Class->get_external_class_file_name

 

(

 

SOAP::Data->name(class_names => [$sdata_group])

 

);

 

@file_names = @{$soapResponse->result};

 

$fileName = @file_names[0];

 

 

$chain_type = $FILE_FIRST;

 

$chunk_size = 65536;

 

$file_offset = 0;

 

 

print TEMPFILE "$sclass_members\n";

 

 

$StringClass =

 

{

 

name => $sdata_group,

 

members => [$sclass_members]

 

};

 

 

my ($class, $string) = (@_);

 

$StringClass =

 

{

 

name => $sdata_group,

 

members => [$sclass_members]

 

};

 

 

$soap_response = $ConfigSync->download_file

 

(

 

SOAP::Data->name(file_name => $fileName),

 

SOAP::Data->name(chunk_size => $chunk_size),

 

SOAP::Data->name(file_offset => $file_offset)

 

);

 

 

$FileTransferContext = $soap_response->result;

 

$file_data = $FileTransferContext->{"file_data"};

 

 

$chain_type = $FileTransferContext->{"chain_type"};

 

@params = $soap_response->paramsout;

 

$file_offset = @params[0];

 

 

Append Data to File

 

print TEMPFILE $file_data;

 

close (TEMPFILE);

 

 

open(TEMPFILE, "<$data_file") or die("Can't open $localFile for input: $!");

 

binmode(TEMPFILE);

 

 

$file_data = "";

 

$bytes_read = read(TEMPFILE, $file_data, $chunk_size);

 

 

$FileTransferContext =

 

{

 

file_data => SOAP::Data->type(base64 => $file_data),

 

chain_type => $chain_type

 

};

 

 

$soap_response = $ConfigSync->upload_file

 

(

 

SOAP::Data->name(file_name => $fileName),

 

SOAP::Data->name(file_context => $FileTransferContext)

 

);

 

if ( $soap_response->fault )

 

{

 

print $soap_response->faultcode, " ", $soap_response->faultstring, "$file_data $chain_type\n";

 

}

 

close (TEMPFILE);

 

}

 

close(FILE);

 

$ConfigSync->load_configuration("/config/bigip.conf", 0);

 

}

 

 

 

 

1 Reply

  • You are on the right track. With external data groups you need to treat them like flies and use the ConfigSync download/upload_file commands and edit the file contents locally. The logic is really up to you on how you manipulate the content of the file when you have it locally. Check out the PerlConfigSync sample in the iControl codeshare on how to download/upload files.

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.PerlConfigSync.ashx

     

     

    -Joe