pycontrol help

Just wanted to add the solution since I just figured it out.

 

 

The code now looks like this...

 

 

import pycontrol.pyControl as pyControl

 

host = 'x.x.x.x'

 

uname = 'username'

 

upass = 'password'

 

 

b = pyControl.BIGIP(

 

hostname = host,

 

username = uname,

 

password = upass,

 

wsdl_files = ['LocalLB.VirtualServer']

 

)

 

 

virtual = b.LocalLB_VirtualServer

 

 

for vName in virtual.get_list()['return']:

 

vDest = virtual.get_destination(virtual_servers = [vName])['return']

 

vPort = vDest[0]['port']

 

vIP = vDest[0]['address']

 

vPool = virtual.

 

print vName,",",vIP,",",vPort

Thanks for posting your update! I'm very weak on my python skills so this will be a good reference to point folks to.

 

 

-Joe

Good post, thanks for sharing. Here's another method: it looks like you're calling the iControl portal for each virtual server name separately. iControl and Python's zip() function can save you (and the BigIP!) some time and CPU cycles:

  
 In [16]: vlist = b.LocalLB_VirtualServer.get_list()['return']  
 In [18]: vdest = b.LocalLB_VirtualServer.get_destination(virtual_servers = vlist)['return']  
 In [19]: combined = zip(vlist, vdest)  
 In [20]: for x in combined:  
 ....:     print "%s=>%s:%d" % (x[0], x[1]['address'], x[1]['port'])  
 

Produces output like: virtual_forward_test=>192.168.1.0:0

The key bit here is that you can pass in the entire list of VS names to get_destination, and iControl will do the Right Thing and return the ip/port combos back in order. Then you "zip" them together, which will create a tuple by default - you then just iterate through it as if it were a list...

I hope this helps!

-Matt

Thanks for the input Matt. I have incorporated some of you suggestions and it sure runs faster. I also changed the prints because my ultimate goal was to create a CSV to help us create some documentation. Here is the newest version in case anyone wants to see. I am sure it is not the cleanest code but it is still a work in progress.

 

 

virtual = b.LocalLB_VirtualServer

 

pool = b.LocalLB_Pool

 

 

 

vlist = virtual.get_list()['return']

 

state = virtual.get_enabled_state(virtual_servers = vlist)['return']

 

vdest = virtual.get_destination(virtual_servers = vlist)['return']

 

vpool = virtual.get_default_pool_name(virtual_servers = vlist)['return']

 

member = pool.get_member(pool_names = vpool)['return']

 

 

combined = zip(vlist, state, vdest)

 

 

 

file = open("BigIP.csv", "w")

 

file.write('Virtual Server Name,Virtual Server State,Destination IP,Destination Port')

 

file.write("\n")

 

file.close()

 

 

for x in combined:

 

details = x[0]+ "," + x[1] + "," + str(x[2]['address']) + "," + str(x[2]['port'])

 

file = open("BigIP.csv", "a")

 

file.write(details)

 

file.write("\n")

 

file.close