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Sheela_Narayan_
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Dec 27, 2015

Need help to identify which is the active load balancer from PowerShell cmdlets

Need help to identify which is the active load balancer from PowerShell cmdlets and also need to know if can initiate a sync from an active load balancer to passive load balancer using PowerShell.  ...
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Joel_Newton
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Jan 18, 2016

This can also be done via the REST API:

Create your credential object
$username = "myusername"
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString "PlainTextPassword" -AsPlainText -Force
$f5device = "mydevicename"
$mycreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($username, $secpasswd)

Set the value of the failover page and query it
$FailoverPage = "https://$f5device/mgmt/tm/cm/failover-status"
$FailoverJSON = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri $FailoverPage -Credential $mycreds

This is where the failover status is indicated
$FailoverJSON.entries.'https://localhost/mgmt/tm/cm/failover-status/0'.nestedStats.entries.status.description