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May 19, 2014

Solarwinds copy ucs to remote storage

Hello, I can get Solarwinds to create a copy of the ucs file, but does anyone know how I can (what command?) use to get that ucs file off the F5 to remote storage? Thanks.

 

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  • I don't know how Solarwinds works but the F5 supports SCP and SFTP so if Solarwinds does, that's the way to go.

     

  • Information on SCP can be found here:

     

    http://www.hypexr.org/linux_scp_help.php

     

  • thanks, those are good, but I was looking for something (if possible) that could be done automatically without having to manually enter a password etc. thanks.

     

  • You can setup authentication based on SSH key vice username/password.

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/400/sol13454.html

     

  • A quick browse of the Thwack forums suggests there have been at least two feature requests related to this;

     

    • FB22457 in 2010
    • FB42391 in 2012

    SolarWinds clearly don't consider this as particularly important. You could contact them and raise a feature request yourself.

     

    You're best bet right now is to run the SolarWinds SCP/SFTP server and then use a script on the F5 to create the UCS and copy it to wherever you run the scp/sftp server or, use a SolarWinds script/alternative commands.