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stucky101_88485
Aug 08, 2012Nimbostratus
Making changes post iApp creation - tricky
Folks
I'm currently trying to decide how to best utilize iApps and I feel that making changes to objects later can be tricky. I wanted to start a discussion to see if I got this right.
The theory is that every object needed by an app would be created via the template wizard.
Then every subsequent change must only be made through the "reconfigure" button. The strict-updates checkbox enforces that.
Real live is quite different.
1. There are many objects that are silently created by the template like http-profiles, tcp-profiles etc..
Those cannot be edited in the template by nature. You would edit them just like you did before.
The strict update doesn't apply here since you're not changing the templates association with the profile but the profile itself.
2. The objects that you can create directly in the template such as http monitors can be edited in 2 ways.
The correct way is via the "reconfigure" button. The incorrect way is by unchecking "strict-updates", making the change old-school and then re-checking "strict-updates".
This is where it gets tricky since someone could make a change old-school style to a VIP and then someone else might overwrite it again by making another change new-school via the "reconfigure" button.
Using the template 100% is simply not an option at this point so I feel it makes most sense to keep the http template as basic as possible and then only use the old-school way to making updates by un-checking and re-checking the "strict-updates" box. I'm forced to do that for many objects anyway and this would at least avoid confusion.
Am I wrong ?
- Brent_Blood_768Historic F5 AccountHello,
- stucky101_88485NimbostratusBrent
- Brent_Blood_768Historic F5 AccountNot including an option for adding an iRule was an oversight on the original design. We are correcting that in the version that I mentioned before as well as a bunch of other things.
- stucky101_88485NimbostratusUnderstood but I'm happy to at least help you QA this thing so as soon as you have something decent - post it please.
- stucky101_88485NimbostratusBrent
- stucky101_88485NimbostratusOne more thing.
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