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Syndicate your BIG-IP

Enhancing visibility through iRules and RSS The business folks in your organization like to have visibility into every aspect of the business, including the disparate pieces of infrastructure that ...
Published Mar 22, 2007
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Joe_Pruitt
Mar 22, 2007
This blog post might be of interest as well:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2005/11/14/1545.aspx

 

 

A RSS proxy for the BIG-IP that uses iControl on the backend to query state of virtuals, pools, and nodes.

 

 

I've finally got around to migrating the sample to the new iControl CodeShare wiki as well.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/BigipBlogging.html

 

 

You can do a bit more with status by using iControl than you can from within iRules but for simple cases, the iRules approach is less configuration.

 

 

-Joe