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Kraig_52305
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May 14, 2012

List Config and VIPs With iControl

I have a user that only has read access to F5 LTM's V10 and V11. They would like to pull the full bigip.conf files from 35 load balancers for historical reference and would like a quick way to find wh...
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May 14, 2012

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()

 

 

method.

 

 

This method returns an array of String of virtual IP addresses on the targeted appliance.

 

 

~ Steven