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candc
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CirrusRemoving the 'reject' keyword from a virtual, using TMSH / iApp
I have an iApp which creates a virtual server. Depending on one of my iApp choices, this is either configured as a normal load-balancing virtual server (displayed as "Standard" in the web GUI), or to...
What is the reasoning for using a explicit "reject" virtual server in this case? Can you not have the virtual not exist unless you need it? That would be the simplest way to handle this case and most standard. The problem for you here is that once you specify reject, even if your modify statement(which is what the iapp framework turns the create into after the initial save) does not contain the reject keyword unless something else is specified to override it then it wont go away.
For example specifying ip-forward will cause reject to go away and it will become a forwarding virtual server.
candcCirrus
CirrusYes, I could set ip-forward, which removes reject, but then how do you remove ip-forward? For what it is worth, setting ip-forward doesn't result in a "Standard" virtual server (as per the web GUI) either.
Ultimately, the use case was to support disabling the virtual server from within the iApp, while leaving the rest of the config intact (e.g. for review).
I started off using enabled and disabled (and may go back to it) but this leaves existing open connections active until they are closed, so I thought I'd try setting reject to see if it behaved any differently.
It just seems odd to me that, once you have added the reject keyword in tmsh, you can't remove it again, without tearing down the whole virtual server and recreating it.