For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

TayF5un's avatar
TayF5un
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Jan 04, 2017

irule static::debug

Hi everyone, I am bit confused, when i interpret irule shown below. Why should i use static::debug. Could you please explain the function of this.   when RULE_INIT {   set static::debug 0   ...
application delivery
BIG-IP
iRules
Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
Icon for Employee rankEmployee
Jan 04, 2017

It's a static variable, similar to static (global) variables you'd use in other programming languages. So you're setting it once and reading it throughout the code. In this case it's being used to globally enable (1) or disable (0) logging in the iRule.