iControl REST API: How to get the pool from a VIP+PORT

i would like to know this as well, as Icontorl objects always seem to be based on its name while in irules somethings return the ip address not the name.

It looks like this is not possible due to an API limitation:

$ curl -sk -u user:pass "https://my.ltm.com/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual?\$filter=destination%20eq%20test"
{"code":400,"message":"Query parameter $filter has invalid value destination eq test.","errorStack":[]}%

Is there any other doable approach?

This seems to be a BigLimitation for the LTM/F5 REST and SOAP APIs

Also the option of download the whole VirtualServer blob and parse it later, doesn't seems to be a real option, as on devices with thousands of entries it will takes too much time and will use too many cpu resources.

Any suggestion?

Assuming you have access to linux server with curl and python you can get a list of virtual servers containing "VIP" word with this:

curl -s -u user:password -k --insecure https://ipaddress/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/?\$select=fullPath | python -m json.tool | grep VIP | awk -F : '{print $2}' | tr -d "\" "

You can redirect output to temporary file. From there you will either have to write a script/program which uses each line as a parameter for another quesry which would get details for each virtual server.

Personally I am using python to get that kind of data and present it in a nice form.