Help with PoolMember get_object_status on dozens of pools

Alex, all our methods in 9.x allow for multiple input values so you can pass in more than one pool name in a single request. In your example, you are passing in an array with only a single pool per call. One thing I'm also wondering about in your code sample is why you are passing in the members parameter since the PoolMember::get_object_status() method only takes a single parameter (list of pools).

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iControl/LocalLB__PoolMember__get_object_status.html

 

Click here

 

 

 

MemberObjectStatus [] [] LocalLB:oolMember::get_object_status(
    in String [] pool_names
);

 

 

Here's some code that makes one call to get a list of all the pools, and then a second call to request the pool members statuses for all the pools.

 

 

$Pool = SOAP::Lite
  -> uri('urn:iControl:LocalLB/Pool')
  -> readable(1)
  -> proxy("$sProtocol://$sHost:$sPort/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi");
$PoolMember = SOAP::Lite
  -> uri('urn:iControl:LocalLB/PoolMember')
  -> readable(1)
  -> proxy("$sProtocol://$sHost:$sPort/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi");
$soapResponse = $Pool->get_list();
@pool_list = @{$soapResponse->result};
  
$soapResponse = $PoolMember->get_object_status(
  SOAP::Data->name(pool_names => [@pool_list])
);
@member_object_status_AofA = @{$soapResponse->result};
  
$i = 0;
foreach $pool (@pool_list)
{
  print "POOL $pool\n";
  @member_object_status_list = @{@member_object_status_AofA[$i]};
  foreach $member_object_status (@member_object_status_list)
  {
    $member = $member_object_status->{"member"};
    $address = $member->{"address"};
    $port = $member->{"port"};
    $object_status = $member_object_status->{"object_status"};
    $availability_status = $object_status->{"availability_status"};
    $enabled_status = $object_status->{"enabled_status"};
    $status_description = $object_status->{"status_description"};
      
    print "  MEMBER $address:$port\n";
    print "    $availability_status\n";
    print "    $enabled_status\n";
    print "    $status_description\n";
  }
  $i++;
}

 

 

So, no matter how many pools or members you have, it'll only take two calls.

 

 

You can do similar things with virtuals and nodes. Also, look for the "get_all*" methods in some of the interfaces. That make help out with avoiding having to query a list first.

 

 

Let me know if anything else comes up...

 

 

-Joe

Thanks for the help Joe. I was running into this problem because I was looking at the API for GlobalLB instead of LocalLB accidently (even though I used LocalLB in my code).

 

 

So I was confused since the GlobalLB API says:

 

 

MemberObjectStatus[][] get_object_status(
    in String[] pool_names,
    in IPPortDefinition[][] members
);

 

 

Anyhow, I have now got it all working quickly and am very happy. Thanks again.

 

 

-Alex

 

Great, glad things are looking up now... Please feel free to come back if any other issues come up. Chances are, if you are having a hard time with something, someone else is as well...

 

 

-Joe

Hi I'm trying to getting started with Icontrol. Until now I'm very impressed about the features. Now I have a problem with the GlobalLBPoolMemberMemberObjectStatus[][] class. I have try to get the object_status of the pool Member in the pool I get followinf error:

 

 

AxisFault

 

faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server

 

faultSubcode:

 

faultString: Could not find element by name: address

 

faultActor:

 

faultNode:

 

faultDetail:

 

 

Probably I have a problem in my code.. Could you help me ??

 

 

Hereby my class

 

 

package com.casablanca.lb;
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 */
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import iControl.*;
public class GlobalLBActivateNode extends Object
{
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Member Variables
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
public String m_endpoint;
public iControl.GlobalLBWideIPBindingStub m_nodeAddress;
  public iControl.GlobalLBPoolBindingStub m_pool; 
  public iControl.GlobalLBPoolMemberBindingStub m_poolMember; 
  public iControl.GlobalLBServerBindingStub m_server; 
  
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Constructor
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
public GlobalLBActivateNode()
{
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", System.getProperty("user.home") + "/.keystore");
XTrustProvider.install();
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
// parseArgs
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
public boolean parseArgs(String[] args) throws Exception
{
boolean bSuccess = false;
    
if ( args.length < 4 )
{
usage();
}
else
{
// build parameters
m_endpoint = "https://admin:protocom" + "@tcwe3s:443" + "/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi";
m_nodeAddress = (iControl.GlobalLBWideIPBindingStub)
new iControl.GlobalLBWideIPLocator().getGlobalLBWideIPPort(new java.net.URL(m_endpoint));
m_pool= (iControl.GlobalLBPoolBindingStub)
new iControl.GlobalLBPoolLocator().getGlobalLBPoolPort(new java.net.URL(m_endpoint));
m_poolMember= (iControl.GlobalLBPoolMemberBindingStub)
new iControl.GlobalLBPoolMemberLocator().getGlobalLBPoolMemberPort(new java.net.URL(m_endpoint));
m_server= (iControl.GlobalLBServerBindingStub)
new iControl.GlobalLBServerLocator().getGlobalLBServerPort(new java.net.URL(m_endpoint));
m_nodeAddress.setTimeout(60000);
m_pool.setTimeout(60000);
m_poolMember.setTimeout(60000);
bSuccess = true;
if ( args.length >= 5 )
{
//getNodeInfo(new String[] {args[4]});
}
else
{
//getAllNodeInfo();
getNodeList();
}
}
return bSuccess;
}
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
public void usage()
{
System.out.println("Usage: GlobalLBActivateNode hostname port username password [node_address]\n");
}
public String[] getPoolList() throws Exception
{
return m_pool.get_list();
}
public String[] getNodeList()throws Exception
{
return m_nodeAddress.get_list();
}
public String[] getServerList()throws Exception
{
return m_server.get_list();
}
public iControl.GlobalLBWideIPWideIPPool[][] getWideIPPool(String[] wide_ips)throws Exception
{
return m_nodeAddress.get_wideip_pool(wide_ips);
}
public iControl.CommonObjectStatus[] getObjectStatus(String[] node_list) throws Exception
{
iControl.CommonObjectStatus[] object_status_list =
m_pool.get_object_status(node_list);
return object_status_list;
}
public iControl.GlobalLBPoolMemberMemberObjectStatus[][] getPoolObjectStatus(String[] node_list,iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[][] members) throws Exception
{
iControl.GlobalLBPoolMemberMemberObjectStatus[][] object_status_list =
m_poolMember.get_object_status(node_list,members);
return object_status_list;
}
public iControl.CommonEnabledState [] getStateInfo(String[] node_list) throws Exception
{
iControl.CommonEnabledState [] enabled_state_list =
m_nodeAddress.get_enabled_state(node_list);
return enabled_state_list;
}
public iControl.GlobalLBPoolPoolMemberDefinition[][] getPoolMember(String[] pool_list) throws Exception
{
iControl.GlobalLBPoolPoolMemberDefinition[][] pool_definition=
m_pool.get_member(pool_list);
return pool_definition;
}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Main
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition ipaddress=null;
GlobalLBActivateNode globalLBActivateNode = new GlobalLBActivateNode();
globalLBActivateNode.parseArgs(args);
// pool list Array
String pools [] = new String[globalLBActivateNode.getNodeList().length];
iControl.GlobalLBWideIPWideIPPool[][] wideip=globalLBActivateNode.getWideIPPool(globalLBActivateNode.getNodeList());
// get the wide ip list
for(int i=0;ifor(int j=0;jSystem.out.println(wideip[ i ][j].getPool_name());
// Get the pool list
pools[ i ]=wideip[ i ][j].getPool_name();
}
}
iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition [][] info;
    info = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[pools.length][];
iControl.GlobalLBPoolPoolMemberDefinition[][] members= globalLBActivateNode.getPoolMember(pools);
for(int i=0;iinfo[ i ] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[i+1];     
for(int j=0;jipaddress=members[ i ][j].getMember();
// Fill the array with the CommonIPPortDefinition
info[ i ][j] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition(ipaddress.getAddress(),ipaddress.getPort());
  
}
}
 
// Test if the return value ist PoolMember   
   System.out.println(globalLBActivateNode.getPoolObjectStatus(pools,info));
   
     
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
}
}
};

 

 

 

First of all, I modified your post to for formatting (hope you don't mind...). bracket-i-closebracket is formatted as an italic in our forum code.

 

 

Now for your issue...

 

 

Errors like "Could not find element by name" implies either 1) a serialization error on the client (most prevalent in dynamic languages like perl) or 2) a null element where a value was expected. The "address" field is most likely from the IPPortDefinition structure in the members parameter to get_object_status(). That would mean that you have some null fields in there.

 

 

Taking a look at your code where you are allocating and filling in the "info" member, I noticed something odd:

 

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition [][] info;
info = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[pools.length][];
iControl.GlobalLBPoolPoolMemberDefinition[][] members= globalLBActivateNode.getPoolMember(pools);
for(int i=0;i  info[ i ] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[i+1];
  for(int j=0;j    ipaddress=members[ i ][ j ].getMember();
    // Fill the array with the CommonIPPortDefinition
    info[ i ][ j ] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition(ipaddress.getAddress(),ipaddress.getPort());
  }
}

 

 

The line where you are allocating the 2nd dimension of the info array index i, you are allocating it to a size of i+1, but then you are entering a for loop from 0 to members[ i ].length-1. I think those two values should be the same. Odds are that i+1 will not always equal the members[ i ].length. I'm surprised you didn't get a runtime violation for the case when members[ i ].length was greater than i+1.

 

 

I'd change your code to this and see if it fixes things up.

 

 

iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition [][] info;
info = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[pools.length][];
iControl.GlobalLBPoolPoolMemberDefinition[][] members= globalLBActivateNode.getPoolMember(pools);
for(int i=0;i  info[ i ] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition[members[ i ].length];
  for(int j=0;j    ipaddress=members[ i ][ j ].getMember();
    // Fill the array with the CommonIPPortDefinition
    info[ i ][ j ] = new iControl.CommonIPPortDefinition(ipaddress.getAddress(),ipaddress.getPort());
  }
}

 

 

I'm not sure this will totally fix your issue, but odds are it will get you going in the right direction.

 

 

Let me know if this does or doesn't work and I'll dig into it some more...

 

 

-Joe

Hi

 

I fixed perfectly the problem. Thank you very much..

Great! Glad to help...

 

 

Please let us know if anything else comes up...

 

 

-Joe

By the way, the network map feature returns in v9.4.2