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Chris3232
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Jan 26, 2024

NEXT CM - multiple GTM pool updates simultaneously

Using REST today on version 15 against the F5 GTM (DNS), it appears there's no support for updating multiple GTM pools in a single REST call. We're increasingly being asked to drive down the time it ...
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whisperer
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Why not create custom data centers for the application set? Then just failover / mark offline the data center. You will then automatically failover all pools.

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Chris3232
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Feb 07, 2024

That's a great idea. We'll give that shot. Thanks!

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    whisperer
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    Feb 07, 2024

    The only other quick way but potentially dangerous way to accomplish this would be parsing and amending the bigip_gtm.conf file and doing a load into memory. You can amend all of the pool members for the GTM pools in there. Definitely test this on a lab VE with a copy of your production GTM config.