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Jamie_Ostrowsk1's avatar
Jamie_Ostrowsk1
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Nov 29, 2018

Retrieve Pool Description field with IRule

Is there a way with an IRule to obtain the Description field for a pool and store it in a variable? I am working on a pool status IRule and I'd like to include the pool description in my output. I ha...
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Nov 30, 2018

Pool descriptions are related to management plane and iRule deals with data plane. So I think is not possible to do it directly.

 

Regarding to pools in iRule, you can work with variables from data plane like:

 

  • pool status
  • pool members
  • pool decisions
  • ...

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.LB__server.ashx

 

KR, Dario.