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toddcscar_12820
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Aug 26, 2003

Newbie: Determining BigIP pool id/name of http request

I am trying to find an api method that will tell me from an application server, which bigIP pool the current HTTP request came through on. Either the F5 has to persist something in the request (HTTP ...
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Gary_Chen_31612
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Aug 31, 2003
From an application server's perspective, you could also consider the method, ITCMLocalLB.Node.get_pool_membership. The method input asks for your server and port in the format of IPPortDefinition structure. The method outputs a list of pools that a server is associated on the BIG-IP. If there is only one single pool on the BIG-IP containing the server, it will retrun a single-element array of Pool names.

 

 

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Gary Chen