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ZHarvey_164362
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Aug 05, 2014

What is the proper way to redfine an iRule through iControl?

I am looking for a way to dynamically redefine iRules via the iControl API. By "redefine", I mean, rewriting the "Definition" (RuleDefinition).   I see that LocalLBRule::query_rule can be passed t...
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Feb 24, 2015

Not very familiar with Java so I used SOAP:

 

$iRDefine = { rule_name => $iRName, rule_definition => $iRdata};

 

$soapResponse = $LocalLBRule->modify_rule(SOAP::Data->name(rules => [$iRDefine]

 

But getting the following error: primary_error_code: 16908390 (0x1020066) secondary_error_code: 0 error_string: 01020066:3: The requested iRule (/Common/test_iRule) already exists in partition Common.

 

Still battling to find what is the issue.