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LyonsG_85618
Cirrostratus
Aug 25, 2011running BIGPIPE commands in an IRULE
Hi.
Does anyone know if it's possible to run BIGPIPE commands in an IRULE?
I would like to run 'b failover show' and then extract the response.
If the unit is in ACTIVE ...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
Aug 25, 2011Hi Graham,
iRules should only ever execute on an active unit, so I am not sure this is necessary. Are you seeing otherwise?
There isn't a way to run bigpipe commands from an iRule. I remember Unruley mentioning a bit of a hack you could use to determine the unit number from an iRule. I think this involved a shell script writing to a datagroup. If you wanted to get arbitrary, real time-ish data from a shell script, you could try this method.
Aaron
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