Exports all policies from an F5 Server

asm_policy_export.py

from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot
from time import sleep

def task_checker(task):
    while True:
        task.refresh()
        if task.status in ['COMPLETED', 'FAILURE']:
            break
        sleep(1)
    assert task.status == 'COMPLETED'  # this will raise assertion error if export task fails
    return True

def download(mgmt, path=None):
    """This will download to the script directory,
       specify path to place it somewhere else
    """
    if path:
        filename = path+name
    else:
    filename = name
    mgmt.tm.asm.file_transfer.downloads.download_file(filename)

def iterate_policies(mgmt):
    policies = mgmt.tm.asm.policies_s.get_collection()
    for policy in policies:
        yield policy.name, policy.selfLink

def export(mgmt, filepath=None):
    path = filepath
    for name, link in iterate_policies(mgmt):
        task = mgmt.tm.asm.tasks.export_policy_s.export_policy.create(
            filename=name + '.xml',
            policyReference={"link": link}
        )
        if task_checker(task):
            download(mgmt, name)

emgmt = ManagementRoot('server','username','password')

export(emgmt)