Migrating F5-LTM to Stingray Traffic Manager

[davidleegiles]

Does anyone know a semi-simple way of migrating the configurations from a F5-LTM to a Stingray Traffic Manager?

[davidleegiles]

Specifically, what I am looking for is a way of migrating the contents of the two following files from the F5-LTM to the STM.  

• bigip_base.conf:  Contains the configured VLANs, self IP address, management interface, and so forth.
• bigip.conf: Contains the specific setting for each of the virtual servers and pool members.

If I need to massage the data before importing into STM, I am good with that as well.  I just need to know the syntax and process.  Thanks on advance for any help.

[jochenmaurer]

Hi David,

i don't have any experience with F5 Config Files, as we switched from another solution to STM. We used a small script creating zcli commands to create ~200 trafficips, vservers, corresponding pools, settings etc.

did take some hours to create the script and then just minutes and the config is finished...

just as a hint how to create a vserver via zcli (command line tool), as we have two datacentres with more or less the same configuration a little bit more than you need:

TrafficIPGroups.addTrafficIPGroup www.example.com_DC1,{ ipaddresses: [192.168.1.10], machines: [STM1.DC1.tpi,STM2.DC1.tpi] }
TrafficIPGroups.addTrafficIPGroup www.example.com_DC2,{ ipaddresses: [192.168.1.10], machines: [STM1.DC2.tpi,STM2.DC2.tpi] }
VirtualServer.addVirtualServer ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP,{ default_pool: ex_i66_ui_v6, port: 80, protocol: http }
VirtualServer.addVirtualServer ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS,{ default_pool: ex_i66_ui_v6, port: 443, protocol: http }
VirtualServer.setListenTrafficIPGroupsByLocation DC1,[ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP],[[www.example.com_DC1]]
VirtualServer.setListenTrafficIPGroupsByLocation DC2,[ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP],[[www.example.com_DC2]]
VirtualServer.setListenTrafficIPGroupsByLocation DC1,[ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS],[[www.example.com_DC1]]
VirtualServer.setListenTrafficIPGroupsByLocation DC2,[ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS],[[www.example.com_DC2]]
TrafficIPGroups.setEnabled www.example.com_DC1 enabled
TrafficIPGroups.setEnabled www.example.com_DC2 enabled
VirtualServer.setEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP true
VirtualServer.setEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS true
VirtualServer.setCompressionEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP true
VirtualServer.setCompressionEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS true
VirtualServer.setWebcacheEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP true
VirtualServer.setWebcacheEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS true
VirtualServer.setRequestTracingEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP true
VirtualServer.setRequestTracingEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS true
VirtualServer.setLogEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP true
VirtualServer.setLogEnabled ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS true
VirtualServer.setProtection ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP ex_service_protection
VirtualServer.setProtection ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS ex_service_protection
VirtualServer.setResponseRules ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP,{ enabled: true, name: ex_response, run_frequency: run_every}
VirtualServer.setResponseRules ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS,{ enabled: true, name: ex_response, run_frequency: run_every}
VirtualServer.setRules ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP, [{ enabled: true, name: ex_httpsrewrite, run_frequency: run_every}{ enabled: true, name: ex_i66_poolchoose, run_frequency: run_every}{ enabled: true, name: ex_nohomepageredirecttologin, run_frequency: run_every}]
VirtualServer.setRules ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS, [{ enabled: true, name: ex_request, run_frequency: run_every}{ enabled: true, name: ex_i66_poolchoose, run_frequency: run_every}]
VirtualServer.setTimeout ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP 300
VirtualServer.setTimeout ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS 300
VirtualServer.setAddXForwardedForHeader ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTP true
VirtualServer.setAddXForwardedForHeader ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS true
VirtualServer.setSSLCertificate ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS www.example.com
VirtualServer.setSSLDecrypt ex_i66_www.example.com_HTTPS true

just copy/paste to zcli

[aclarke · Accepted solution]

David,

Unfortunately there is no direct way to translate an F5 config to STM. There are a few differences in the way it is set up.  the bigip_base.conf is probably pretty easy to parse by hand and set up either manually or with zcli commands if you are using a virtual appliance.

As for your bigip.conf, this should be pretty easy to map into zcli commands as Jochen Maurer suggested.