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jasvinder_singh
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Aug 20, 2017
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Need help on F5 automation to read the irules attached t all the virtual servers

HI team,   I am new tp F5 automation. I am working on script to check irules attached on all of my vips. output should be as below irules   vip_name irule1 irule2 vip1_name irule1 irule2  
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  • Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp_162
    Aug 20, 2017

    This is tested with Python 3.4.3 and BigIP 12.1. Did not have 12.0 installation readily available, but it should work the same for you

    from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot

 Optional: omit unsecure certificate warnings from output
import requests
from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)

API_ROOT = ManagementRoot("bip-01", "admin", "admin")
VSERVER_COLLECTION = API_ROOT.tm.ltm.virtuals.get_collection()

for vserver in VSERVER_COLLECTION:
    print(vserver.name)
     Catch an error to avoid a VS with no iRules breaking the script prematurely
    try:
        irules = vserver.rules
    except AttributeError:
        print('- No iRules on this Virtual Server!')
    else:
        for rule in vserver.rules:
            print('-', rule)

    Output in test env:

    $ python list_irules.py

vs_0.0.0.0_any
- No iRules on this Virtual Server!
vs_test_80
- /Common/ir_do_nothing
- /Common/ir_do_nothing_again
vs_test_443
- /Common/ir_do_nothing
- /Common/ir_do_nothing_again

    As you can see from the script above, this takes a bit of testing to get the iRules listed. Ofcourse, ideally either the API or SDK should return an empty list if there are no iRules on a Virtual Server, rather than a script-breaking "AttributeError: 'f5.bigip.tm.ltm.virtual.Virtual'>' object has no attribute 'rules'". SDK is a build up on top of a problematic API, so eventually this problem should be addressed by the API developers.

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jasvinder_singh
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Aug 20, 2017

@jaykumar_f5 i tried this. It seems to give input but not the exact output like

 

vip1 - irule1 irule2

 

vip2 irule1 irule2

 

my exact requirements is to know how many vip's have one particular vip attached {code}

 

!/usr/bin/python

from import BigIP import requests from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)

 

Connect to the BigIP

bigip = BigIP("hostname", "username", "password")

 

Get a list of all pools on the BigIP and print their name and their members' name

for virtual in bigip.ltm.virtuals.get_collection(): virt = bigip.ltm.virtuals.virtual.load(partition=virtual.partition, name=virtual.name) rule=virt.rules for rule in rules: print "Partition: %s Virtual: %s rule: %s" % (virtual.partition, virtual.name, rule.name) {code}