Get sync-status

Hi Jay,

 

 

This may be what you are looking for:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iCon...query.ashx

 

Thanks Jonathan, that is the way I was retrieving the sync status on v.10x, however, that variable is not reliably populated in v.11x. I know the sync status is being stored somewhere, hence the tmsh command to view it, but I can find nothing in the 11.2 iControl.dll that reports the status.

Is it possible to execute a tmsh command within an iControl and capture the output? The iControl is written in vb.net. If this is possible then I could execute the command above and parse the output for the sync status.

 

I'm hoping the answer is an 'iControl' centric solution; an API or DB Variable.

Glenn and Jay,

 

 

I, too, am looking for a solution to this problem. Have you had any success?

 

 

John

I have had NO success :-(

 

 

The values retured by some DB variables are not populated, or are invalid. I'm currently working with our f5 rep who said:

 

 

 

 

>>In 11.x we introduced Device Service Clustering (DSC) and Device Groups,

 

>>Traffic-groups, etc. so iControl libraries for sync status were moved

 

>>under this heading.

 

>>

 

>>https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iCon...Group.ashx

 

>>

 

>>I believe this should provide the information you were looking for.

 

 

 

 

Sadly, and unfortunately, the API ''get_sync_state" in Management::DeviceGroup does not exist in version11.2 of the 'iControl' library download from their site.

 

In other words, I've been stuck for over a month with no solution :-(

 

Unfortunately, it's not just missing from the library download on the F5 site, it doesn't exist in the 11.2.0 WSDL on the device itself: https://your-ltm/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi?WSDL=Management.DeviceGroup

Ugh. I also reached out to our F5 rep. I wonder if the situation is at all improved in v11.3. Thanks for responding so quickly Glenn.

 

 

John

Hi guys,

 

 

I queried multiple devices from v10.2.x to v11.2.x and was able to retrieve the Sync Status.

 

 

Try: Management::DBVariable

 

with the query variable.

 

 

string[] lbstatus = new[] { "configsync.state" };

 

ManagementDBVariableVariableNameValue[] syncValue = f5Interface.ManagementDBVariable.query(lbstatus);

 

 

switch (syncValue[0].value)

 

{

 

case "0 - Synchronized":

 

settings.SyncStatus = "Synchronized";

 

break;

 

case "1 - Local config modified, recommend configsync to peer":

 

settings.SyncStatus = "Local config modified, Sync Recommended";

 

break;

 

case "2 - Peer config modified, recommend configsync from peer":

 

settings.SyncStatus = "Peer config modified, Sync Recommended";

 

break;

 

case "3 - Config modified on both systems, manual intervention required":

 

settings.SyncStatus = "Config modified on both systems, Sync Recommended";

 

break;

 

case "-1 - uninitialized or disabled config state":

 

settings.SyncStatus = "Standalone - N/A";

 

break;

 

default:

 

settings.SyncStatus = syncValue[0].value;

 

break;

 

}

Michael,

 

 

That's essentially the code I've been using. Having dug a little deeper, this works fine on my 6900s, but not on my Viprions. On my Viprion pair it just comes back as standalone. Any thoughts?

 

 

John