Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus
I think what you are trying to do is programmatically possible if you really want to do it.
- Your first problem is going to be the information from the source into a Properly Formatted External Datagroup on the LTM. See the class command for more formatting information on the formatting. If you cannot get your data into the the proper format then the rest of what you are trying to do is mute.
- Your second problem will be getting the LTM to trigger a reload of the contents of the Datagroup (the methodology could be as easy as changing the permissions on the file itself (tmsh modify ltm data-group DATA.GROUP.NAME access-mode {read-only or read-write}). Changing the permission on the External Datagroup file will trigger the LTM to reload the data into memory and then be used by the iRule. Changing the content within the file will not trigger a reload automatically.
You may want to take a look at and collect performance data to compare before and after you do this if you get all of this done and working. It may make you reconsider doing this every 60 seconds (or not). Just a suggestion.
Hope this helps.