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Hi Craig,
Are you saying there is a way to pull the backups from the BigIP units onto my solarwinds server using powershell?
Yes and no. It isn't a feature of, or dependent on SolarWinds. I'm just using it as an application server since for me, there are other NMS services running on it. Where you run your backup process from is up to you.
Would there need to be any additional configuration on the BigIP units or is this all done via powershell on my solarwinds server?
You need a place to run your backup from, and based on that platform you'll be using some version of icontrol. In my case, the icontrol pulgin for powershell made the most sense. You can run it from PERL, PHP, Python, Ruby, so you have options. Once that is determined you'll install the icontrol modules for that selected platform. Here is a link to the icontrol wiki - that should get you started. Other than the fact that you'll need an admin account to access the boxes, there are no changes required on the BipIPs. They already speak icontrol out of the box.
See this link for details on a powershell version.
Good Luck,
Mike