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elastic_82555
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Sep 24, 2013
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Retrieving VS, pool, and nodes from F5

Hi, Using Chef extensively internally, and now would like to take all the node ip's(hostnames) out of chef, then programatically(using RESTful) interface, query the F5, to retrieve the nodes, pool...
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  • mhite_60883's avatar
    mhite_60883
    Oct 09, 2013

    Example Python code:

     

    try:
    logging.info("Connecting to BIG-IP and pulling statistics...")
    b = bigsuds.BIGIP(hostname=ltm_host, username=user, password=password)
    logging.info("Requesting session...")
    b = b.with_session_id()
except bigsuds.Connecti , detail:
    logging.critical("Unable to connect to BIG-IP. Details: %s" % pformat(detail))
    sys.exit(1)
logging.info("Setting recursive query state to enabled...")
b.System.Session.set_recursive_query_state(state='STATE_ENABLED')
logging.info("Switching active folder to root...")
b.System.Session.set_active_folder(folder="/")
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elastic_82555
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Oct 09, 2013

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, and not aware of how do do this with the REST API, but I also tried the same on the SOAP API, and again I get the same answer, with all the missing servers, so I also don't know how to turn recursive mode on for the SOAP API. Any hints on how to do so, appreciated.