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Chadwick_McInni
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Oct 04, 2005

iRule that generates an email

Is there a way to have an iRule generate an email from the BigIP when an event happens? For example, we want an email to be sent to a group whenever a certain vip is hit 10 times in one minute from t...
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Colin_Walker_12
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Oct 04, 2005
Chad,

 

 

At this time there isn't the capability built in to fire an email from within an iRule.

 

 

You can, however, set syslog-ng to send an email based on a trap that comes through when a certain event is logged. You can then build an iRule to log that event (via the log command) in the needed format so that syslog-ng picks up on it, and sends the email.

 

 

Here's some info on syslog-ng from the BIG-IP 9 manual. Click here

 

 

Hopefully this will get you started.

 

 

-Colin