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Nathan_Bultman_
Historic F5 Account
Apr 30, 2008

pool member state wrt state set in TMUI

I'm looking at the states available for:

 

 

iControl :: GlobalLB :: PoolMember :: MemberEnabledState :: EnabledState

 

(Click here)

 

 

And we have:

 

 

STATE_DISABLED 0 The object is disabled.

 

STATE_ENABLED 1 The object is enabled.

 

 

 

How do these states compare to the 3 stages for pool member states available in the pool member properties via the TMUI:

 

 

Enabled (All traffic allowed)

 

Disabled (Only persistent or active connections allowed)

 

Forced Offline (Only active connections allowed)

 

 

Can the same granularity of states be set via iControl? If so, where should I point the customer?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

-NMB

 

 

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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Apr 30, 2008
    I described this for the LTM side of the house in this post:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=1&postid=8604&view=topic

     

    Click here

     

     

     

    It's basically a toggle between the enabled state and the availability state. In looking through the GTM interfaces, it seems there is not a set_availability_state() method on PoolMembers so it could be that at this point it is not possible to fully control them. There is a get_object_status() method that returns both the enabled and availability states so I'm not aware of a technical reason why this was omitted. I'll have to verify and get GTM configured to test this one.

     

     

    -Joe