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Wes_98098
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Jul 24, 2009

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition

Hello, I have a BIG-IP 9.1.2 Build 40.6 that I'm trying to query with the PowerShell iControls and I'm not sure about the results I'm getting back.

 

 

Here are the steps that I have been through:

 

 

add-pssnapin icontrolsnapin

 

Initialize-F5.iControl -hostname ... (I'm getting logged in fine)

 

$ic = Get-F5.iControl

 

$objVirtualServers = $ic.LocalLBVirtualServer.get_list()

 

$objPools = $ic.LocalLBVirtualServer.get_default_pool_name($objVirtualServers[0])

 

$objPoolMembers = $ic.LocalLBPool.get_member($objPools)

 

$objPoolMembers

 

 

address port

 

------- ----

 

192.168.1.101 80

 

192.168.1.102 80

 

192.168.1.103 80

 

192.168.1.104 80

 

 

$ic.LocalLBPoolMember.get_object_status($objPools)

 

 

member object_status

 

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iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition iControl.LocalLBObjectStatus

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition iControl.LocalLBObjectStatus

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition iControl.LocalLBObjectStatus

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition iControl.LocalLBObjectStatus

 

 

$ic.LocalLBPoolMember.get_session_status($objPools)

 

 

member session_status

 

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iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition SESSION_STATUS_ADDRESS_DISABLED

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition SESSION_STATUS_ENABLED

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition SESSION_STATUS_ENABLED

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition SESSION_STATUS_ADDRESS_DISABLED

 

 

 

So my question is: Why am I getting results that say "iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition" and "iControl.LocalLBObjectStatus"?
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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Jul 27, 2009
    Let's look at the get_object_status method first. The signature for that method is:

     

     

     MemberObjectStatus [] [] LocalLB.PoolMember.get_object_status( 
   in String [] pool_names 
 );

     

     

    The returned value is a 2-D array of MemberObjectStatus structures, one array for each pool_name passed in with the pool_names array.

     

     

    The MemberObjectStatus structure is defined as follows:

     

     

     struct MemberObjectStatus { 
   IPPortDefinition member; 
   ObjectStatus object_status; 
 }; 
  
 struct IPPortDefinition { 
   string address; 
   long port; 
 }; 
  
 struct ObjectStatus { 
   AvailabilityStatus availability_status; 
   EnabledStatus enabled_status; 
   string status_description; 
 };

     

     

    In your code, you are relying on PowerShell to extract all the sub arrays/structures in it's default table formatting and PS doesn't have the TypeData information abailable to do so. You'll need to store the values in a variable and access the child elements and print them out accordingly.

     

     

    Look at the CodeShare entry I wrote on PsPoolMemberControl for an example of using that method and interrogating the results:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/PsPoolMemberControl.html

     

    Click here

     

     

     

    You would look into the get_session_status output in a similar fashion to get the results for that method.

     

     

    In the future, if you go into the API reference for the method you have a question about, at the bottom of the page, there are links to relevant sample code that use that method. On the LocalLB.PoolMember.get_object_status page

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/LocalLB__PoolMember__get_object_status.html

     

    Click here

     

     

     

    there are several PowerShell samples that you can refer to.

     

     

    Hope this helps and please don't hesitate to post more questions if they come up.

     

     

    -Joe
  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Jul 27, 2009
    Another thing to point out in your example, you are only passing in the first virtual server (array element 0) returned from the get_list method in the get_default_pool_name method. You can pass the entire array in and you will be returned the default_pool names for all of the virtual servers. Just thought I'd point that out...

     

     

    -Joe
  • Wes_98098's avatar
    Wes_98098
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    Jul 27, 2009
    Thanks for the reply, Joe. I'll take a look at the example you posted... Yeah, I only included the first element in the virtual server array here so I could post the exact results I'm getting (instead of the hundreds of lines of results that my entire script is pulling). I'll let you know if I can get my script working.

     

     

    ~wes