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Problem disabling pool member via pyControl
I'm trying to write a very basic python script to add a pool member to an existing pool, then disable it. My script is this:
!/usr/bin/env python
import pycontrol.pyCont...
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Nimbostratus
NimbostratusGlad you're working! This brings up a good point though, and it's worth explaining it a bit as it'll almost certainly affect future additions to the Utils module for pyControl. The utility functions that are added are convenience functions that will hopefully save some cycles for folks. Because of this, we try and keep them generic and flexible. The requirement is that you pass a valid "pool member" object to the function to disable the member. This allows us to pass in different objects that refer to different systems.
A possible use case would be to create a pool member object for both the active and standby systems in a pair, and make a call to each system to disable the pool member in question(and you didn't want to do a config sync). That way if a failover were to occur you'd have two systems that were at parity with respect to the pool in question.
Thanks for the post.
-Matt
