Adding and Deleting data group records and ZoneRunner records via PowerShell

Tony,

The appropriate interfaces are

Management_ResourceRecord

I think that it wouldn't be too difficult to do what your asking. Are you writing the scripts yourself?

Yes, I have also been looking at the libraries in .NET if that would make it any easier... What do you suggest?

The Zonerunner (BIND) code is the more difficult of the two in my opinion. The datagroup manipulation is pretty straight forward.

The only scripts I could find for manipulating BIND on GTM and datagroup manipulation were in pyControl, but this may get you started at least as a pseudocode.

I'll be honest, my development expertise in iControl is in PHP, Perl, and Python.

pyControl CNAME controls

Thanks, I will review these and see if I can make this work.

FYI, I am proceeding with .NET development for this as I do not see a way to do this with PowerShell. Although I am now running into issues with the add_cname method as referenced by this question: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/net-add_cname-method

Thanks for the help! Tony

FYI, I am proceeding with .NET development for this as I do not see a way to do this with PowerShell. Although I am now running into issues with the add_cname method as referenced by this question: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/net-add_cname-method

Thanks for the help! Tony

What error are you given?

Error1The best overloaded method match for 'iControl.ManagementResourceRecord.add_cname(iControl.ManagementViewZone[], iControl.ManagementCNAMERecord[][])' has some invalid arguments

I get that the ViewZone would be an array, but it looks like it wants a a multi-dimensional array for the records? Reviewing this:

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.Create-CNAME-Resource-Record-in-Zone-Runner.ashx

It appears there should be some kind of sequence method, but only shows to be an alias in .NET. I'm confused...

I find that the correct format of the arrays is the most difficult aspect of any iControl interface. I'll take a look at this a bit later today and see if I can find the correct format.

If I was to guess, it looks like the view array expects the view name and the zone name, and I'm unsure about how those are keyed.

You might try various 'get_' methods to see how the arrays are constructed.

I'll keep looking at it. I've been experimenting for a couple days now and can't seem to get it right. I've tried loading it into a List, I've paused the execution to view the data structures and it's all really confusing... Actually, here's the code I posted in the other forum (thought it was already here...):

Interfaces interfaces = new Interfaces();

string[] view = { "external" };

ManagementViewZone[] viewZones = interfaces.ManagementZone.get_zone_name(view);

ManagementZoneInfo[] zoneInfo = interfaces.ManagementZone.get_zone(viewZones);

ManagementCNAMERecord record = new ManagementCNAMERecord();

record.cname = "test";

record.domain_name = "st.int";

record.ttl = 3600;

interfaces.ManagementResourceRecord.add_cname(viewZones, record);

Thanks! Tony