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Daniel_55334
Altostratus
Mar 29, 2008Creating VS in a fast way
I need to create several hundreds of VS. Every time I create a VS I need to select a pool. However I got 600 pools and they are not sorted in any means in the dropdown menu. So I need to scroll over all pools before I can find the one I need. Is there any smarter way to do this? This saves me a lot of time. Thanks.
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- If the GUI isn't exactly how you need it to work, you can always write your own by using iControl. iControl is built for exactly this purpose: automating the management of objects on the system. If you need to create hundreds of virtuals, you can create a perl script or .Net or Java application to do it for you. If you haven't written an iControl application before, let me know some specifics and what language you prefer and I'll see if I can help with a boilerplate sample to start with.
- Oh, one other option if you don't want to go the programming route would be to script the creation of the virtuals on the BIG-IP command line with the bigpipe command. You can build a script that issues bigpipe commands to create the virtuals.
- Deb_Allen_18Historic F5 Account
and you can get more help at the command line by runningb virtual my_virtual {dest 192.168.12.11:80 pool my_pool persist source_addr profiles tcp http}
b virtual help
- Daniel_55334
Altostratus
Thanks for all reply, joe and deb. However, does F5 not suggest to make configuration changes using CLI in v9? I read through many manuals for v9 and not even a single command is mentioned. - JRahm
Admin
There is a CLI guide that is published separately now. CLI changes are very much still supported.
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