Pool member status on F5 DNS objects via iControl REST
I got a question on how to retrieve the status of pool members on F5 DNS objects via the iControl REST interface. In the GUI you get fancy red, yellow, black, blue, and green painted circles, diamond...
Published Dec 27, 2017
Version 1.0
JRahm
Admin
AdminJRahmAdmin
Admin
Stephen_Briggs
Employee
EmployeeThe equivalent of show gtm pool is available if /stats is appended to the REST query:
curl -skL --tlsv1 -u admin:admin -X GET https://10.10.10.1/mgmt/tm/gtm/pool/a/testpool/stats | jq .
{
"kind": "tm:gtm:pool:a:astats",
"generation": 195,
"selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/gtm/pool/a/testpool/stats?ver=12.1.4.1",
"entries": {
"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/gtm/pool/a/testpool/~Common~testpool:A/stats": {
"nestedStats": {
"kind": "tm:gtm:pool:a:astats",
"selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/gtm/pool/a/testpool/~Common~testpool:A/stats?ver=12.1.4.1",
"entries": {
"alternate": {
"value": 0
},
"dropped": {
"value": 0
},
"fallback": {
"value": 0
},
"tmName": {
"description": "/Common/testpool"
},
"poolType": {
"description": "A"
},
"preferred": {
"value": 0
},
"returnFromDns": {
"value": 0
},
"returnToDns": {
"value": 0
},
"status.availabilityState": {
"description": "offline"
},
"status.enabledState": {
"description": "enabled"
},
"status.statusReason": {
"description": "No enabled pool members available"
}
}
}
}
}
}