Cisco-A10-LB-Converter

Script to convert cisco load balancer config to A10 load balancer config

Enabling Python Virtual Environment

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• This program needs the python virtual environment to be activated to add all the dependencies to run the program.

• Navigate to the location of the script.

• Run this command to activate the python virtual environment

user@root:~$ source /parse_env/bin/activate

Running the program

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• To run the server searchable based Cisco to A10 converter run:

user@root:~$ python3 server_based_converter.py

• To run the content/website searchable based Cisco to A10 converter run:

user@root:~$ python3 cisco_a10_converter.py

• To create the json file of cisco configs run:

user@root:~$ python3 cisco_json_converter.py

• To create a10 configs from the json file run:

user@root:~$ python3 a10_cfg_builder.py

Files created and their description

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• cfg.json: json file of all attributes extracted from cisco config

• a10_complete_config.txt : complete a10 configs file

• a10_groups.txt: a10 groups configs

• a10_services.txt: a10 services configs

• a10_vips.txt: a10 virtual IPs configs

• ping_list.txt: list of public IPs to ping

• suspend_list.txt: cisco configs to suspend services

• logs.txt: log file with list of converted websites and keepsalive status

• attribute_extractor.py: backend methods for processing

• server_based_converter.py: server searchable configuration converter

• cisco_a10_converter.py: website/content searchable configuration builder

• cisco_json_converter.py: cisco to json converter based on website

• a10_cfg_builder.py: json to A10 config builder based on website