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Walter_Kacynski's avatar
Walter_Kacynski
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Aug 11, 2014

Nested Procs in an iRule

Since iRules don't support the expr ceil(args) function, I'm trying to implement a TCL version that I found at https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/16742115/   This implement uses multiple reusab...
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nitass's avatar
nitass
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Aug 17, 2014

did you forget call command?

call

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.call.ashx

e.g.

 config

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tmsh list ltm rule qux
ltm rule qux {
    proc test1 { x } {
  log local0. "test1: $x"
}
proc test2 { y } {
  log local0. "test2: $y"
  call test1 $y
}
when RULE_INIT {
  if { [TMM::cmp_group] == 0 and [TMM::cmp_unit] == 0 } {
    call test1 1
    call test2 2
  }
}
}

 /var/log/ltm

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  tail -f /var/log/ltm
Aug 16 22:54:09 ve11a info tmm[29362]: Rule /Common/qux : test1: 1
Aug 16 22:54:09 ve11a info tmm[29362]: Rule /Common/qux : test2: 2
Aug 16 22:54:09 ve11a info tmm[29362]: Rule /Common/qux : test1: 2