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Interacting with the F5 Programatically is an exciting yet challenging journey. During my experience, I faced timeouts that disrupted session stability and hindered effective API communication with F5 devices.
In this blog post, I'll share my journey of overcoming these obstacles while developing a script to generate backups of F5 configurations. Although I focus on timeout challenges in Go, the principles and solutions discussed apply to any programming language. By sharing my insights, I aim to empower you to handle timeouts and generate F5 backups effectively, regardless of your language preference.
In the code examples below, I use the Go and its SDK to interact with the F5 guest, which can be found here.
Challenge 1: Session Timeout
The first timeout issue I encountered was the session timeout. This happened while trying to create a UCS backup of the device's configuration. This task can be quite time-consuming, especially when dealing with large configuration files -my file was over 1GB. The challenge arose when the F5 session would time out before the backup process completed, forcing me to establish a new connection to continue interacting with the F5 device.
Below is the code snippet for reference:
package main
import (
"log"
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