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Derek_21893
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Aug 06, 2009

Discovery of failover peer using iControl

Hi,     I'd like to be able to discover a failover peer for an active-active or active-standby pair of LTMs using iControl. From what I can tell there is no good way to do this currently. ...
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Mark_Atkinson_5
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Apr 13, 2010
You can programatically get the peer management address using the, uh, rather clunky ltconfig interface. 


!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from SOAPpy import *
def main(argv):
    user = argv[1]
    password = argv[2]
    bigip = argv[3]
    url = '%%s://%s:%s@%s/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi' % (user,password,bigip)
    ProxyBuilder = lambda x: SOAPProxy(url % 'https',  namespace='urn:iControl:' + x)
    ltcfg = ProxyBuilder('LTConfig/Class')
    failover = ltcfg.get_list_of_instances(class_names=['failover'])
    ltcfg = ProxyBuilder('LTConfig/Field')
    peer = ltcfg.get_value(class_instance_key=failover[0][0], field_instance_name='peer_mgmt_addr')
    print peer
    
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))