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Dick_Piccard_72
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Jul 15, 2010

Programmatic Maintenance of a large data group

We are running BIG-IP 10.1.0. We have a situation that could be addressed with two large data groups (each likely to have about a thousand lines, but we need a method that will scale gracefully up to...
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hoolio
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Jul 15, 2010
Hi Dick,

 

 

I think an iControl based application would be well suited for administering the datagroup(s). This would allow you to create a web (or other) type of application that would connect to the LTM via HTTPS and add/remote/edit datagroup entries. You could build whatever business logic into the app and then use iControl calls to implement it. The relevant portion of the iControl API is described on the wiki:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/LocalLB__Class.html

 

 

Aaron