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Skuba_85554
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Feb 19, 2009

exporting object status to web page

we have a team of application support engineers who often ask me whether or not a node in a pool is 'up' or 'down'

 

 

is it possible to export the status of nodes and virtual servers to an external web site?

 

 

thank you
  • James_Quinby_46's avatar
    James_Quinby_46
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    Sure - this can be accomplished via iControl. Have a look at some of the examples here:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl.HomePage

     

     

    In particular, you might find this example interesting:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/BigipBlogging.html

     

     

    "Your BIG-IP is now blogging. This is a CGI Script to return an RSS feed of the BIG-IP's status. So, load it up on your favorite perl-enabled web server, point your aggregator at it, and fire away"
  • cheers, i'll take a look at those in depth tomorrow (nearly my home time!)

     

     

    thanks again