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syncretism
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Jun 22, 2017

What's the Best Way to Derive a Device-Group Name Over REST?

In order to create some scaleable BigIP automation, I need to be able to sync my active and standby balancers. To do this, I need to know the name of the device group. I've been using JQ to filter th...
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Jun 22, 2017

I use the Python SDK so I may not be able to get you exactly there, but hopefully can help a bit.

 

There is a device_groups sub-collection under /mgmt/tm/cm. I just checked a cluster that is running a single traffic-group, and it has three device-groups: gtm, the device_trust_group, and the sync-failover group containing the traffic group.

 

There may be a better way to pull the desired device-group from that list. In my case the desired group is the only one of type sync-failover (the others are sync-only).