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mchesney_162137
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Jun 26, 2014

Modifying Pool Member Health Checks via API Requests

Hello, I have a number of health checks validating service pools are returning an expected response based on a page each service serves up. For the sake of this discussion, let's say I call "[pool m...
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Patrik_Jonsson
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Jun 26, 2014

I've done quite alot of scripting with Powershell but I'm afraid I am lacking experience in Ruby. However, if I were to do this I'd look into this method:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.LocalLB__Monitor__set_template_string_property.ashx

 

set_template_string_property( in String [] template_names, in LocalLB__Monitor__StringValue [] values );

 

Note how everything is defined as arrays and how the stringvalue is a type of it's own which in turn has another type as a member:

 

  • https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.LocalLB__Monitor__StringValue.ashx
  • https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.LocalLB__Monitor__StrPropertyType.ashx

The purpose of the arrays is to be able to update multiple monitors at a time, just like you want. I really recommend trying to get that to work if you have many pools. Depending on the number of pools and the latency+bandwidth you have to your LTM it might save you alot of time.

 

Sorry that I could not give you Ruby specific advice. Hope that helped though!

 

/Patrik