pycontrol help

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