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esch_tz_201996
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Feb 12, 2016

iControl REST API: How to get the pool from a VIP+PORT

My goal is to get the pool's member status given a VIP and I would to do that by using the iControl REST API As far as I know I have to: find the VirtualServer by using the VIP find the Pool ...
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esch_tz_201996
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Feb 16, 2016

It looks like this is not possible due to an API limitation:

 

$ curl -sk -u user:pass "https://my.ltm.com/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual?\$filter=destination%20eq%20test"
{"code":400,"message":"Query parameter $filter has invalid value destination eq test.","errorStack":[]}%

 

Is there any other doable approach?

This seems to be a BigLimitation for the LTM/F5 REST and SOAP APIs

Also the option of download the whole VirtualServer blob and parse it later, doesn't seems to be a real option, as on devices with thousands of entries it will takes too much time and will use too many cpu resources.

Any suggestion?

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    Aug 31, 2016

    I was going to ask exactly the same, as we've just finished one DC part with the Netscaler, but not having the filtering in similar manner for the other part with F5, would be a big surprise, and that seems to be the case.