iControl based change management

The ChangeControl methods were introduced for Enterprise Manager and I honestly don't even know how to use them so I wouldn't recommend going down that route. If you are only concerned with rules and data groups and all the data groups are external, you can upload the external groups first which won't trigger an action since they are only reloaded at configuration time. Setting the file mode on the external class with the LocalLB.Class.set_external_class_file_mode method will trigger a reload of the file. Then you can update all the iRules in one shot with a single call to LocalLB.Rule.modify_rule. You will have an instant between when the new class files are available and using the old iRules though. The only way to really go around this is to edit the configs by hand and issue a "b load" (or with tmsh on v10).

 

 

Hope this helps...

 

 

-Joe