NimbostratusHi Experts,
We usually deploy 100s of VIPs on 100s of F5 LTM boxes regularly but manually. This takes about 3-4 hrs on each box.
Am looking to automate that configuration. Hve no idea about any scripting language or anything.
Can any expert guide how this can best be done via automation and time reduced to less than an 1hr.
thanks -genseek
CirrusWe usually build the configs using tmsh commands in notepad and paste them in. You could do the same building the nodes, pools and then the vips with tmsh to notepad then cut and paste
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CirrostratusI'd highly recommend taking the iControl route, particularly considering the size of your estate.
You certainly could SCP a file to each box (using key based authentication requiring no user input) and do a config merge but this doesn't provide for error checking or status feedback and other checks and balances that you'd really want in a scenario like this.
NacreousThis excel file have really helped me and might help you.
Regards.
https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/AdvDesignConfig.VBA-Excel-script-for-BIGIP.ashx
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