iC2I: What Pools Rely on This Server?
Prerequisites: This article assumes you have read the first article in the series, that you have access to a Java compiler, and that you have built the iControl API on your development machine – or ...
Published Apr 11, 2008
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The answer to this question may be obvious for careful and skilled readers of both the article text and the Java language (which isn't me), but doesn't this code more precisely return the pools for any given IP address (which isn't really the same as a server)?
For servers that supply services handled by the BigIP on multiple IP addresses (whether attached to the same network interface or multiple interfaces), one would still have to query the node itself to find all of it's ip addresses or (assuming a shop is meticulous in configuring reverse DNS lookups) do a zone transfer on the DNS server to find all of the IP addresses homed to a particular node/server. If I'm right, is there a way to find these (multiple-ip-to-host) associations using the iControl API and parent/child relationships or something else?
Thanks for the great product and great support!
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