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LanceLyons
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Aug 01, 2022

Powershell New-F5Session and close session issues.

Hi,   We have some automation around some F5 functionality.  We have moved from 1 F5 to 2 F5s,  one for external apps and one for internal apps.   In our powershell automation we now have to create t...
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Aug 02, 2022

Hi JRahm,   Thanks.  I did also post over there.  Headed over there to see if there was any response.

I posted in this area  https://github.com/joel74/POSH-LTM-Rest/issues  not sure if that was the right one but it seemed to have the most activity.

thanks

Lance

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    JRahm
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    Aug 02, 2022

    Did you try the passthru switch Joel mentioned in the issue I shared? Seems to be the same scenario you mentioned, but posh is not my jam so I'm just throwing ideas out.

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      Aug 02, 2022

      Yeah,  I am able to get it to work for 1 session but I am not sure how to do 2 sessions since we have 2 F5s that we have to change iRules on.     It seems like the  New-F5Session is part of the scripts attributes and so the calls to Add-iRuleToVirtualServer assumes the "current F5 session" that is open so passthru might be the default.   Joel may know of an alternative so I will have to wait and see.

      I can always create another script that handles iRules for the other F5 but it involves a little more work and 2 separate scripts and commands to be created and executed.

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        JRahm
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        Aug 02, 2022

        Looking through some comments on the codeshare, i found this:

         

        $F5Session = New-F5session -LTMName $host_address -LTMCredentials $mycreds -PassThrough; 
Get-Pool -F5Session $F5Session | Select-Object -ExpandProperty fullPath;

         

        So maybe if you had that in a loop and just passed in $host_address from the iterable it would update? No worries if you've tried this, still slinging mud against the wall in the event something sticks... 🙂