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damian_19221
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Feb 19, 2015

iControl to disable a virtual server

Hi, Apologies for probably asking a really basic question, but this is my first foray into iControl! We need to disable a virtualserver on our F5 during a maintenance window. I was looking into creat...
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StephanManthey
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Feb 19, 2015

Hi Damian,

maybe using REST is an option?

To retrieve a list of virtual server direct links you can use the following request:

 

curl -s -k -u admin:admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual?\$select=selfLink | grep -ioE '"selfLink":"[^"]+"'

 

It will return the links to access the virtual servers.

To enable / disable a specific virtual servers you can do the following:

 

curl -s -k -u admin:admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{"enabled":true}' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~vs_101_8081

curl -s -k -u admin:admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{"disabled":true}' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~vs_101_8081

 

Thanks, Stephan