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allenderj
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Sep 05, 2017

Extract info via Rest from BigIQ.

Hi all,   We are currently in the middle of a migration from VCMPs to VE's and from EM to Big-IQ.   Currently we do billing by of connections and we track this in the description field with o...
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PeteWhite
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Sep 19, 2017

You should definitely be considering using REST for this - as you say the SDK is easy to use, or I have a simpler Python module called iCR that you can use. Use a simple database table to store the device details and periodically retrieve the number of connections per VS then output it into a CSV. Simples!