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zentropy_128313
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Feb 04, 2005

Accessing a Pool's Common.Statistic properties from within an IRule

I'm writing an iRule that redirects traffic based on the value of STATISTIC_SERVER_SIDE_CURRENT_CONNECTIONS for a particular pool. Does anyone know if there is a way to access this value?
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Feb 07, 2005
Thanks.

 

 

In the alternative, I was thinking that maybe I can create a cron job that uses the iControl SDK to periodically (e.g every 10 secs) poll the F5 for these statistics, and then insert them into the header of a request to a server managed by the F5.

 

 

I would then write an iRule to look for this header variable, and if found, it would set a tcl global variable to this value. Then any other request needing this statistic would be able to access it via the global variable.

 

 

Would this work?

 

 

Regards