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hotrod_127503
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Jan 04, 2005

Best Practice for Sync Between Primary and Failover

I am writing an auto-registration service that will allow machines to add themselves to the Load Balancer. Due to the transactional nature of this process, I am never quite sure when everyone is regi...
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Joe_Pruitt
Mar 11, 2008
To force a ConfigSync operation from one unit to another, you'll want to use the synchronize_configuration() method in the System::ConfigSync interface. 

enum System::ConfigSync::SyncMode {
  SYNCMODE_BASIC = 0, // Synchronizes only basic configuration, such as /config/bigip.conf.
  SYNCMODE_ALL = 1 // Synchronizes all common files in /config, 
all common files in /etc, all common BIG/db keys, 
and any other information deemed necessary for a complete system configuration.
}
System::ConfigSync::synchronize_configuration(
    in SyncMode sync_flag
);

The docs for the method are located here:

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/System__ConfigSync__synchronize_configuration.html

Click here

As for autosync, I'm not sure if that has been added yet.. Take a look at the System.High Availability settings in the BIG-IP GUI to see if there is an option for it on your platform.

-Joe