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Jonathan_Archer's avatar
Jonathan_Archer
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Mar 15, 2013

Match Radius.Class attributes

We need to compare variables in the radius class attribute that are returned via an APM radius auth. The class attribute is stored in the APM in hex so I need to convert the hex to string.   I ha...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Mar 16, 2013
Try this: 


set e_fields [split [mcget {session.radius.last.attr.class}] "|"];
foreach field $e_fields { set hex [binary format H* [string range [string trim $fields] 2 end]];if { [string match -nocase "*ace*" $hex] } { return $hex } else { return "NO" }};

Three things:

1. The "contains" keyword is iRules-specific and doesn't work in VPE rules.

2. You needed H* for the binary format.

3. The hex value is stored with leading "0x" characters, but the binary format won't work with this, so [string range [string trim $fields] 2 end]] gets rid of them.