Automated ASM Backup - working bash script now to automate or convert to iCall/tcl

Hi All,

I have put together a BASH script that when run performs a backup of the ASM policies and copies them to a remote location. The script runs great and I have had it set as a Cron job in my lab setup to automate the backups. Unfortunately, the business does not want a script running as a Cron job on the F5.

I have had it suggested to me to use iCall. I have seen only limited information regarding iCall that was written in a way that someone that has never seen iCall could understand. This got me far enough to understand that iCall runs tcl scripts, not bash scripts! The result being if I was to use iCall I would need to re-write the script completely.

I am looking for 2 options here:

•    A means to automate running a bash script on the F5.
•    OR detailed information or getting started with iCall - Better yet, converting bash to tcl.

To illustrate my issue, my bash script lives on the F5 and does the following:

•    reads a counter value from a file
•    curl command to the management interface and copies a list of ASM policy details to a txt file.
•    greps the policy names from the original txt file to a new txt file.
•    greps the policy IDs from the original txt file to a new txt file.
•    sets a parameter with the current data and time as the value
•    makes a localDirectory using the data and time parameter as the folder name (this ensures a known date of the backup - also ensures you can re-run and get a new folder on the same day if required)
•    uses curl post and get commands to get the policies from the F5.
•    curl upload-file command to copy files to remote smb location
•    adjust the counter
•    performs a cleanup of any files that were created locally.

If I switch over to using iCall the above all needs to be done with tcl - I am not sure how much of that is supported. I have found that "echo" is replaced with "puts", is there a "curl", "cat", etc equivalent?

Thanks in advance