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AlexBCT
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Oct 18, 2023
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Timing/CPU info for BigIP DNS WideIP iRules

I just realized yesterday (or put better, one of my students pointed it out to me...) that BigIP DNS doesn't seem to hold timing information on the execution of iRules. For LTM, this ("show ltm rule ...
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  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
    Oct 23, 2023

    Hi AlexBCT that information isn't available to the iRules applied to a wideIP because that happens in gtmd. The listener-based iRules are TMM and have that additional diagnostic data. The tracing data is also only TMM-based iRules.

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JRahm
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Oct 23, 2023

Hi AlexBCT that information isn't available to the iRules applied to a wideIP because that happens in gtmd. The listener-based iRules are TMM and have that additional diagnostic data. The tracing data is also only TMM-based iRules.

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AlexBCT
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Oct 24, 2023

I was afraid that it would be something like that, but was hoping there was something I missed! 🙂 

Either way, thanks for the clarification, that makes sense - and good to know about the tracing data too!