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Dave_McCauley_3
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusGet Active/Standby Device in iRule
Is there a simple way to determine if a device is standby in an iRule? I have a unique requirement with a virtual that has to be in the local-only traffic group, but also need to determine if the dev...
Andy_McGrath
Cumulonimbus
CumulonimbusA few points on this:
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iRules run within TMM as a traffic event process and have no direct access to the underlying F5 system, only get the data provided from pre-defined commands and events.
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If you assign a Virtual Server to the
traffic group it will always, as long as TMM is running, be seen as active as each traffic group holds its own HA state. Also if thelocal-only
was not in antraffic-group
state it wouldn't process traffic and so you iRule would never be executed.active
Like Vijay said maybe give a little more info on what you are trying to accomplish and see if someone on here can help.
