any way to set_active_partition 'all' or 'any' ?

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I want to read all pool and virtual services into a mysql database. Now that I’ve started moving objects into their own partitions, I’m trying to find a way to get these objects ‘all in 1 pass’ instead of getting a list of all partitions, and fetching pool and virtual service objects for each one. My api user has access to ‘all partitions’. Does the F5 native GUI’s Partition ‘All [Read Only]’ have an easy iControl equiv? Or is it iterating through all partitions also, behind the scenes? thx

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Unfortunately, iControl only works one partition at a time. If you have objects spread across multiple partitions, then you will have to work one partition at a time. You can switch with the Management.Partition.set_active_partition method.

-Joe

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thanks for the response!!

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… UPDATE …

In playing around with the Python interface, and hoping to find a view similar to the web UI that shows information about all partitions, I found you can set the partition to “[All]”.

For example, the following will…

1) print a list of partitions

2) set active partition to “[All]”

3) confirm active partition

4) print a list of all virtual servers found under the “[All]” partition view (which is presumably read-only.

import suds
import pycontrol.pycontrol as pc

print "Initialize LTM object..."
ltm = pc.BIGIP(
hostname = 'x.x.x.x',
username = 'wintermute',
password = 'ice',
fromurl = True,
wsdls = [
'Management.Partition',
'GlobalLB.VirtualServer',
'LocalLB.VirtualServer',
'GlobalLB.Pool',
'LocalLB.Pool'
])

print "Listing all partitions..."
partitions = ltm.Management.Partition.get_partition_list()
for partition in partitions:
 print "\t%s" % partition.partition_name

partition = '[All]'
print "Attempting to set active partition to '%s'" % partition
try:
ltm.Management.Partition.set_active_partition(partition)
except:
print "error"
raise

print "Current Partition: " + ltm.Management.Partition.get_active_partition()

print "List of GlobalLB VirtualServer objects..."
g_vservers = ltm.GlobalLB.VirtualServer.get_list()
for server in g_vservers:
 print "\t%s" % server

print "List of LocalLB VirtualServer objects..."
l_vservers = ltm.LocalLB.VirtualServer.get_list()
for server in l_vservers:
 print "\t%s" % server

exit()
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Ives beat me to it, though I have a caveat for that post: The Management::Partition interface is deprecated as of version 11.0.0 (see Management::Folder and System::Session as alternatives). Here is what I was going to demonstrate, as follows. Be aware that you may not want to do any create/write operations with “/” as your active folder.

>>> b.LocalLB.Pool.get_list()

[‘/Common/p2’, ‘/Common/p1’]

>>> b.System.Session.get_recursive_query_state()

‘STATE_DISABLED’

>>> b.System.Session.set_recursive_query_state(‘STATE_ENABLED’)

>>> b.System.Session.get_recursive_query_state()

‘STATE_ENABLED’

>>> b.System.Session.get_active_folder()

‘/Common’

>>> b.System.Session.set_active_folder(folder=‘/’)

>>> b.System.Session.get_active_folder()

‘/’

>>> b.LocalLB.Pool.get_list()

[‘/Common/C1114967.app/C1114967_pool’, ‘/Common/p2’, ‘/Common/p1’, ‘/mypart/p3’]

So you can get all your information that way. BTW Partition “[All]” maps to “/” internally (and it sets recursive query -- but again, the Partition interface is deprecated).

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This link helped me in solving the problem. Here is the snippet for java based implementation.

String currentActivePartition = interfaces.getManagementPartition().get_active_partition(); interfaces.getManagementPartition().set_active_partition(“[All]”);

/* other iControl calls */

interfaces.getManagementPartition().set_active_partition(currentActivePartition);