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Kenny_Van_73892
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Apr 27, 2007

TCL and irules

I'd like to get deep into irules but there's no book about irules outthere and there're many TCL books as well as reference. Because some of you are expert in TCL, so would you recommend any good TCL...
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hoolio
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Apr 30, 2007
I think the best resources for learning iRules and TCL are available for free online. It's good to get an understanding of the standard TCL commands as well as the F5-specific implementations and events.

 

 

Here are a few resources:

 

 

The iRule wiki on DC (Click here)

 

The LTM configuration guides on AskF5 (Click here)

 

The TCL manual for standard TCL commands/syntax (Click here)

 

And of course the posts in this forum, the codeshare, blogs and guides on DC.

 

 

From one of Joe's posts (Click here):

 

 

 

1. The official TCL SourceForge Documentation - (Click here)

 

2. ActiveTCL - Windows TCL client - (Click here)

 

 

Oh, and when reviewing the online TCL docs, keep in mind that we have disabled several of the builtin TCL commands in iRules for optimization and performance reasons. The list is available here: (Click here)

 

 

 

 

 

And feel free to post if you have questions.

 

 

Aaron