listing live connections (to programmatically de-NAT)

This is becoming a more urgent task for us, particularly since F5 doesn't seem to recommend using the LTM as a default gateway for servers which are behind it since it requires enabling loose initiation and teardown of flows, but our app owners expect on-demand access to client source IPs connected to LTM VIPs and source-NATted on the back-end.

 

 

Right now what I had to do was create a service which on one end physically logs into the BigIP and issues a "b conn destination show" command, which I then parse and package into a SOAP message for consumption by application support tools.

 

 

This strikes me as a very awkward way to get this information which should be exposed with iControl!