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samstep
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Mar 13, 2013

v11/v10 iControl get_list change in behaviour? (/Common prefix)

Dear F5 iControl API experts,     In versions 9.x and 10.x of BIG-IP the iControl methods such as "get_list()" when run for example on a Pool would return a list like this:     pool1 ...
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Michael_Yates
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Mar 14, 2013
Hi Samstep,

 

 

There is no functionality change on get_list() between v9, v10, and v11. It still works the same. The difference is on v11 itself. In order to add some configuration functionality (I suspect) they have now added the Partition to the Object Name. Basically everything now has it's partition appended to it, so now you can have iRules, Pools, Virtual Servers, etc. with the exact same name in different partitions because they are made distinct by the Partition Name.

 

 

This is because partitions are now literally split into different bigip.conf files instead of one file to rule them all. So the Common Partition is in /config/bigip.conf, but anything else is in /config/partitions//bigip.conf.

 

 

Hope this helps.