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Updated Dec 08, 2022
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Version 4.8.6 now also indexes virtual server descriptions. You won't be able to filter by description in the application (might think of some way in the future), but it's visible in the VS details, and it's included when exporting to CSV.

Also, you can use this method to extract Virtual Servers that has a description:

Create new webclient object
$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
Enable integrated authentication
$WebClient.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
Get the json objects

$Virtualservers = ($WebClient.DownloadString("https://linuxworker.j.local/json/virtualservers.json")) | ConvertFrom-Json

$VirtualServers | Where-Object { $_.description -ne "" }

More examples are available here:

https://loadbalancing.se/2016/10/07/synergy-effect-of-running-bigipreport/

Hope that helps a bit for now at least.

/Patrik

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