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Dennis_Olvany_1's avatar
Dennis_Olvany_1
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May 25, 2016

Pool vs use pool

All of the documentation I have viewed uses the 'pool' command to perform pool selection, but I have seen some usage of the 'use pool' command in code snippets. Is there a difference between 'pool' and 'use pool'?

 

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  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
    Icon for Cumulonimbus rankCumulonimbus
    May 25, 2016

    the right command is 

    pool poolname

    The 

    use pool
    was for bigip 4.X backward compatibility. I'm not sure it is supported anymore in current version.

  • CharlesCS's avatar
    CharlesCS
    Icon for Cirrus rankCirrus
    May 26, 2016

    The 

    use pool
    command is still supported, but you should convert any iRule using it to the correct syntax since we don't know whether it will continue to be supported in the future.