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sally_calvert_8
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Oct 01, 2013

11.3 tmsh cli for irule

I have the following irule, and I need to get it into one tmsh cli (using the editor or the gui is not an option). I can enter it through the gui just fine. But when I prepend tmsh create on the fron...
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Hendry_Chandra_
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Jun 11, 2015

Hi ALL,

Actually the command can be multiple liner. Only the issue is: read-ability of the codes are terrible. Example iRules with normally written using iRules Editor:

[root@BigIP:Active:Standalone] config  tmsh list ltm rule Eval_Command
ltm rule Eval_Command {
when HTTP_REQUEST {
 set Command [string map {/ " "} [HTTP::uri]]
 if { $Command eq " " } {
  HTTP::respond 200 content "Usage: /Command/Argument_1/Argument_2/Argument_3/.../Argument_N/\r\n" noserver "Connection" "Close"
 } else {
  HTTP::respond 200 content "$Command\r\n\r\n[eval $Command]\r\n\r\n<--- [clock format [clock seconds] -format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"] --->\r\n" noserver "Connection" "Close"
 }
}
}
[root@BigIP:Active:Standalone] config

with CLI (tmsh), you can write it as below:

[root@BigIP:Active:Standalone] config  tmsh create ltm rule Test_iRules_CLI `echo "when HTTP_REQUEST { set Command [string map {/ \" \"} [HTTP::uri]] ; if { \\$Command eq \" \" } { HTTP::respond 200 content \"Usage: /Command/Argument_1/Argument_2/Argument_3/.../Argument_N/\\\r\\\n\" noserver \"Connection\" \"Close\" } else { HTTP::respond 200 content \"\\$Command\\\r\\\n\\\r\\\n[eval \\$Command]\\\r\\\n\\\r\\\n<--- [clock format [clock seconds] -format \"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"] --->\\\r\\\n\" noserver \"Connection\" \"Close\" } }"`
[root@BigIP:Active:Standalone] config

the result will be:

[root@BigIP:Active:Standalone] config  tmsh list ltm rule Test_iRules_CLI
ltm rule Test_iRules_CLI {
    when HTTP_REQUEST { set Command [string map {/ " "} [HTTP::uri]] ; if { $Command eq " " } { HTTP::respond 200 content "Usage: /Command/Argument_1/Argument_2/Argument_3/.../Argument_N/\r\n" noserver "Connection" "Close" } else { HTTP::respond 200 content "$Command\r\n\r\n[eval $Command]\r\n\r\n<--- [clock format [clock seconds] -format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"] --->\r\n" noserver "Connection" "Close" } }
}
[root@BigIP:Active:Standalone] config

Hope the above helps.