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Shawn_Higgin_84's avatar
Shawn_Higgin_84
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Dec 28, 2005

How to disable all traffic on bigip

Hi,

 

 

I have been asked to come up with a way from command line to disable all load balanced traffic on a bigip for an emergency "restart" of the site. Is there a way via icontrol to disable ALL VIPs with one command? Of course this user would need admin access.

 

 

Any information/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Shawn
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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Dec 30, 2005
    Not quite one command, but you could do it with two method calls.

     

     

    If you want to disable all virtual servers, then you could use the LocalLB::VirtualServer::set_enabled_state() method passing in a list of all virtual servers returned from the LocalLB::VirtualServer::get_list() command.

     

     

    pseudo code would look something like this (actual code will vary depending on your chosen language).

     

     

    string [] vs_list = LocalLB::VirtualServer::get_list();
EnabledState [] state_list = new EnabledState[vs_list.Length];
for(int i=0; i{
  state_list[ i ] = "STATE_DISABLED";
}
LocalLB::VirtualServer::set_enabled_state(vs_list, state_list);

     

     

    To re-enable the virtuals, change the states to "STATE_ENABLED".

     

     

    -Joe