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james_lee_31100
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Aug 25, 2017

What is the best way to verify new IP address is not used on F5 ltm

Hi, Everyone:   I am trying to use Ansible to build a lot of VIPs, Is there a way to verify new IP addresses is not used on LTM, currently I am doing following (grep /config/bigip.conf, and grep ...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
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Apr 01, 2019

iControl REST way.

GET /mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual-address
for getting virtual addresses: e.g.,

curl -sku : https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual-address

If you only want the addresses, pipe the output to

|  python -c 'import sys,json; o=json.load(sys.stdin); oo = [vip["address"] for vip in o["items"]]; print("\n".join(oo))'


GET /mgmt/tm/net/self
for getting the self IP addresses: e.g.,

curl -sku : https:///mgmt/tm/net/self

Pipe the output to the same python filter for getting the addresses.

I guess you don't need to get the management address since you have already used it in the above calls (

), however, to satisfy your curiousity, it is 
GET /mgmt/tm/sys/management-ip
.