Using iRules to access/change monitor stanza

Aaron,

 

 

I'm sorry, I misspoke -- The iRule doesn't need to change these values, just read them.

 

Currently it reads classes, and I want to read 'monitor' configuration as well. The subject of this post incorrectly says "access/change" where all I need to do is access (read) the values.

 

 

Truth be told, the reason to do this is a significant hack. My team is being given very limited access to our BigIPs, so we will no longer be permitted to set Class values ourselves. We will, however, be allowed to establish a new 'Monitor' and set values in the "recv" and "send" fields. So the current working idea is to create a Monitor which never actually gets used, but contains "recv" and "send" fields that contain information -- basically using the recv and send fields the way classes are intended to be used.

 

 

So a standalone LTM-based request would set/modify values in the monitor stanza.

 

Then we need to see if the iRule can read these values.

 

 

Hope that makes sense...Then the next question is whether that can be done -- the iRule reading these values.