# any way to set\_active\_partition 'all' or 'any' ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Forums\ **Tags:** icontrol, dev, devops\ **Created:** [June 26, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/any-way-to-set-active-partition-all-or-any/57855 "2010-06-26T00:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Antonio\_Varni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Antonio\_Varni](https://community.f5.com/u/Antonio_Varni)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/any-way-to-set-active-partition-all-or-any/57855/1 "2010-06-26T00:46:09Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Pruitt](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/joe_pruitt/32/8438_2.png) [@Joe\_Pruitt](https://community.f5.com/u/Joe_Pruitt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/any-way-to-set-active-partition-all-or-any/57855/2 "2010-06-26T04:15:07Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Antonio\_Varni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Antonio\_Varni](https://community.f5.com/u/Antonio_Varni)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/any-way-to-set-active-partition-all-or-any/57855/3 "2010-06-29T21:02:04Z")
thanks for the response!! ---
**Author:** ![ives\_39316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@ives\_39316](https://community.f5.com/u/ives_39316)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/any-way-to-set-active-partition-all-or-any/57855/4 "2012-05-30T18:10:42Z")
**… 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. ```tcl 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() ``` ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_Cromwell\_9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todd\_Cromwell\_9](https://community.f5.com/u/Todd_Cromwell_9)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/any-way-to-set-active-partition-all-or-any/57855/5 "2012-05-30T22:01:43Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Srivignesh\_1217](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@Srivignesh\_1217](https://community.f5.com/u/Srivignesh_1217)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/any-way-to-set-active-partition-all-or-any/57855/6 "2014-05-28T13:35:38Z")
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);