BIGIP Model #'s - Is there a Unique Key?

1. How could we best accomplish this using iControl v9.0

In v9.0, we added the platform to the SystemInfo structure

struct SystemInformation {       
           String system_name          
           String host_name       
           String os_release       
           String os_machine       
           String os_version operating system.          
           String platform       
           String product_category       
           String chassis_serial       
           String switch_board_serial       
           String switch_board_part_revision        
           String host_board_serial       
           String host_board_part_revision       
           String annunciator_board_serial       
           String annunciator_board_part_revision          
       };       
              
 SystemInformation System::SystemInfo::get_system_information();

You are looking for the platform member of this structure. For those interested with the 4.x platform, you can use the ITCMLocalLB::Global::get_system_type() method.

2.) How could we best accomplish this using SNMP? Is there a given OID you recommend that is unique to each model?

I just verified with our SNMP developers that we currently do not expose the platform type via SNMP.

-Joe