Discovery of failover peer using iControl

Well, Thats there, the ARP thing is some thing i also tried out, but ARP is always not available (if we could execute a Ping on the broadcast address using the iControl, which i assume is not possible now, we could get all the ARP's of the devices connected in that network) We could get all ARP entries and filter that forOUI (00-01-D7). This might also get some VIP's arp if proxy arp was enabled

 

 

I have 2 pairs of Big IP's on the same external network, so when I was doing the ARP, some it was also giving the ARP of the other boxes even if I filtered out based on the OUI (00-01-D7)

 

 

Now, we have to actually go to the boxes and conform if they are the failover pair. If the network is well designed, like .1 for floating .2 and .3 for individual boxes, we can use that logic.

 

 

If we have a list of boxes, the logic could be

 

 

1. iControl in to each box, take the o/p is redundant and the floating self IP's

 

2. Save that data in an array

 

3. Check if any 2 boxes have same saet of floating IP's and then they can be considered a pair

 

4. icontrol into them and get the failover status

 

 

 

Thats just a thought .. what do you think ?