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NimbostratusRetrieve SyncStatus of device using iControl
Hi,
I want to retrieve the sync status of a particular device using Icontrol.dll. I found the following functions and ran it in powershell and get the following error, 1. $interface.ManagementDeviceGroup.get_device_sync_status("grpname","devicename") Exception calling "get_device_sync_status" with "2" argument(s): "Unknown method "{urn:iControl:Management/DeviceGroup}:get_device_sync_status""... 2. $interface.ManagementDeviceGroup.get_sync_status("grpName") Exception calling "get_sync_status" with "1" argument(s): "Unknown method "{urn:iControl:Management/DeviceGroup}:get_sync_status""
Can anyone please help me resolve this error. Thank you.
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Hi! Have you upgraded the pssnapin module?
The method you refer to came in v11.4.0 and the snapin module was updated 1 month ago.
/Patrik
I tried it with my current version and it failed. Then I updated to the latest one and it worked, so that seems to be your problem as well.
/Patrik
maggie_129843Hi Patrick,
Thanks for your response. I verified that it was with the version we use. - Dll version is 11.4 while the bigip is 11.3. Is there any other way to get the sync status or any other work around? Thanks!
That explains a lot. :)
Sorry, but I don't know any other way to programmatically do it via iControl.
I guess you could login to the web interface with powershell and parse it from the code if you login with System.Net.WebClient and extract the string between:
"[a href="/tmui/Control/jspmap/tmui/devmgmt/overview.jsp"]" and "[/a]"
Had to replace the tags with brackets. The forum does not like them.
/Patrik
- maggie_129843
Thanks! We had tried that as well and found the request URL for sync but somehow not able to login using the user id and pwd using powershells': Invoke-WebRequest, System.Net.WebClient
Thanks,
So you've tried something like this?
http://www.powershellcookbook.com/recipe/vODQ/script-a-web-application-session
/Patrik
