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List Config and VIPs With iControl
I am open for suggestions but I am wondering two things:
1. Could iControl be used to pull the configs down to a local file for historical purposes?
2. Could iControl be used as well to list current VIPs of all 35 load balancers?
I am completely unfamiliar with iControl and don’t have much scripting experience so I am looking for something fairly easy to deploy.
Kraig
- snovakov_86258Nimbostratus
Kraig,
Welcome to the 'iControl' world!
Yes, repetitive and mundane tasks like this are easily automated using 'iControl' API.
Look at the documentation associated with your particular version, etc.
For example, I'm using 'iControl' v10.2.0 and would use the following 'iControl' API method to retrieve a file from an appliance:
System.ConfigSync.download_file()
To get a system's complete list of VIPs I would use the:
LocalLB.VirtualAddress.get_list()
- smp_86112CirrostratusHi Kraig. If you don't have much scripting experience, you may have to overcome a pretty steep learning curve. iControl supports Visual Basic .NET, Visual C .NET, Java, and Perl - which language did you plan on using?
- dbizzle_20930Nimbostratussounds like a job for enterprise manager, honestly with that many F5's EM would help out alot i think..
course, there are other ways of determining this type of info without scripting or EM. If both the VIPs and the F5s have hostnames that are resolved by your local DNS, you can always just use trace route to find out what device a particular VIP lives on.
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