Discovery of failover peer using iControl

Okay, the consensus from the Advanced Config/Design forum is that a floating self-ip is not necessary in certain scenarios, and thus I cannot rely on a floating self-ip being present on an LTM.

 

 

At this point I think maybe human input is the only way to definitively discern which two LTMs are indeed in a failover pair. While it would be nice to automatically detect this, I suppose it's not unrealistic to think that someone using the software I'm working on should really know which two LTMs are in a failover pair.

 

 

As a last effort, are there any other ideas??? I suppose the floating IP address could be a primary means of detection if it exists, then fallback to human input should no floating self-ip exist on the device.

 

 

Thanks,

 

-Derek