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Erland_Nylend_1
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Nov 09, 2011

Perl Management/DeviceGroup

Hello,

 

 

 

I'm trying to setup a monitoring script for an LTM cluster running v11.0. What I wish to monitor, is whether the configuration on the active node has changed. (if so; we should do a config sync manually)

 

 

 

For version 9, I've used these variables.

 

 

 

"configsync.localconfigtime"

 

"configsync.peerconfigtime"

 

"configsync.localsyncedtime"

 

 

 

These don't seem to work for version 11, so I've been looking into Management/DeviceGroup instead. What stops me, is that I cannot get any output from these functions:

 

 

 

 

 

get_sync_state

 

get_member_states

 

 

 

(I get an undefined value in return)

 

 

 

These functions work:

 

 

 

get_autosync_enabled_state

 

get_device

 

get_version

 

 

 

This is the code I'm using:

 

 

 

 

 

get certificate information:

 

my @device_groups = (

 

"/Common/st-lbzq-group",

 

);

 

 

 

$query = $apiHandle->get_sync_state( SOAP::Data->name(device_groups => [@device_groups]));

 

$sync_state = $query->result();

 

print Dumper(\$sync_state);

 

 

 

 

 

The produced result, is undef..

 

 

 

Does anyone know why this happens?

 

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  • George_Watkins_'s avatar
    George_Watkins_
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    Nov 15, 2011
    Hi Erland,

     

     

    I think I know what's going on here. I looked at the WSDL on a box running version 11.0.0 for the Management::DeviceGroup interface and couldn't find the "get_sync_state" or "get_member_state" methods referenced. My best guess is that these methods are available in version 11.0.0-HF1 (build 8131), which was released to the web on 10/18. Any chance you're running the initial release of version 11.0.0 (build 8037)? Try applying the hotfix and the methods should appear.

     

     

    -George
  • GavinW_29074's avatar
    GavinW_29074
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    Dec 05, 2011
    Erland

     

     

    Did you manage to get this working?

     

     

    I've got a couple of v11 HF1 boxes which I'd like to do the same on... However i've had a look at the Management.DeviceGroup WSDL and cant see a get_sync_state method...

     

     

    Cheers

     

    Gav
  • Erland_Nylend_1's avatar
    Erland_Nylend_1
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    Dec 05, 2011
    No, it does not work for me either, and the version reported is: BIG-IP 11.1.0 Build 1943.0 Final