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Skuba_85554's avatar
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...
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James_Quinby_46
Historic F5 Account
Feb 19, 2009
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"