Forcing a reload of External Data Groups within an iRule

This article shows how to use iControl to force an iRule to reload external configuration data when that data has changed. Background One of the more common uses of iRules is to extract part of...
Published Feb 07, 2007
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tkarni_92568
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May 26, 2008
Hi,

 

 

I like the idea of the ability of an iControl updating an external class for an iRule to refer to it in real time.

 

A good usage I see is updating a black list of IPs by some application (using iControl) and have an iRule reject connections from these IPs.

 

 

I do find it a bit funny that such a wonderful mechanism needs such a clumsy way to reload the external list. This is a basic need and I would think of a simple single line of code (style "class->reload")

 

 

Joe, I read you were looking into this code forcing a reload on 9.4.

 

Now that 9.4.4 is out, would you know if there is an easy way to force a reload in 9.4.4?

 

Thanks,

 

Tom.