console app

To build a console app, do the following:

 

 

1. Start Visual Studio

 

2. Hit the New.Project menu and select a C Console Application. Name it and save.

 

3. Add the iControl Assembly (iControl.dll) as a resource to the project (along with System.Web and System.Web.Services).

 

 

I typically can't commit to writing custom code but since this took all of 3 minutes to do, I'll pass along the entire program code.

 

 

Replace your Project.cs with this code:

 

 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace cstest
{
    class Program
    {
        public iControl.Interfaces m_interfaces = new iControl.Interfaces();
        public string m_bigip = null;
        public long m_port = 443;
        public string m_user = null;
        public string m_pass = null;
        public bool Run(string[] args)
        {
            bool bSuccess = false;
            if (args.Length > 3)
            {
                m_bigip = args[0];
                m_user = args[1];
                m_pass = args[2];
                bSuccess = m_interfaces.initialize(m_bigip, m_user, m_pass);
            }
            if (bSuccess)
            {
                if (args.Length > 5)
                {
                    String pool = args[3];
                    String[] members = new string[args.Length - 4];
                    for (int i = 4; i < args.Length; i++)
                    {
                        members[i - 4] = args[ i ];
                    }
                    bSuccess = addMembersToPool(pool, members);
                }
            }
            return bSuccess;
        }
        public bool addMembersToPool(string pool, string[] members)
        {
            bool bSuccess = false;
            iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[] member_defs = 
                new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[members.Length];
            for(int i=0; i            {
                String [] seps = members[ i ].Split(new char [] {':'});
                member_defs[ i ] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition();
                member_defs[ i ].address = seps[ 0 ];
                member_defs[ i ].port = Convert.ToInt32(seps[ 1 ]);
            }
            iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition [][] member_def_lists = 
                new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[ 1 ][];
            member_def_lists[ 0 ] = member_defs;
            try
            {
                m_interfaces.LocalLBPool.add_member(
                    new string [] {pool}, member_def_lists);
                bSuccess = true;
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message.ToString());
            }
            return bSuccess;
        }
        
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Program p = new Program();
            p.Run(args);
        }
    }
}

 

 

If you want to make a method to remove members from a pool, just copy the function addMembersToPool and replace the LocallBPool.add_member with LocalLBPool.remove_member and you should be set.

 

 

Hope this helps...

 

 

-Joe

BTW, the args.Length should be greater than 4 not 5. Otherwise you'd need at least two pool members for the update.