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Jason_Hook_4092
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Dec 03, 2009

Looking for peer review on a "simple" iRule

We have a need to direct traffic to different pools based on a header value.

We have a string data group called SysPools with the following entries (here's a couple for example):

001 TTSHE-SysG

013 TTSHE-SysO

015 TTSHE-SysO

030 TTSHE-SysB

This is the iRule on the VIP: 

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  Set the default target pool 
 set defaultTarget "TTSHE-SysD" 
  
 if {[HTTP::header exists "BETAFirm"]} { 
  Set $firm to the value of the header 
 set firm [HTTP::header "BETAFirm"] 
 log local0.info "Set Firm to $firm" 
  Set $target to the pool name from the lookup table 
 set target [findclass $firm $::SysPools " "] 
 log local0.info "Set Target to $target" 
  check for a mismatch resulting in a blank pool name and set to default if blank 
 if { $target eq "" }{ 
 log local0.info "Setting Target to default $defaultTarget" 
 set target $::defaultTarget 
 } 
  Forward request to the set pool 
 log local0.info "Forwarding request to pool $target" 
 pool $target 
 } else { 
  No Header found...send to default pool 
 log local0.info "No Header...Forwarding to default pool $defaultTarget" 
 pool $defaultTarget 
 } 
 }

Comments? I'm looking for a few comments to find out if this is the "best" way to accomplish what I'm trying to do. Is this efficient? Is there a different/better way?

Any/all comments are welcome.

Thank you!

Jason
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  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Dec 03, 2009
    Hi Jason,

     

     

    That looks very good. Which LTM version are you using the rule with? For 9.4.4 and higher, you can remove the $:: prefix from the class name in order to help keep the rule CMP compatible (assuming you're on a hardware platform that supports CMP Click here).

     

     

    Aaron
  • Jason_Hook_4092's avatar
    Jason_Hook_4092
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    Dec 03, 2009
    So I can simply change it to this:

     

     

    set target [findclass $firm SysPools " "]

     

     

    v10 and yes, that was thought I had about CMP.

     

     

    thanks!
  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Dec 03, 2009
    Yep. Or you could use the new class (Click here) command. findclass has been deprecated in v10, but will still work in current 10.x versions.

     

     

    Aaron
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    Jason_Hook_4092
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    Dec 03, 2009
    Maybe I'm just reading the Wiki incorrectly, but I change the look up line to:

     

     

    set target [class match -value $firm equals SysPools]

     

     

    and changed the data group values to:

     

     

    001:=TTSHE-SysG

     

    013:=TTSHE-SysO

     

    015:=TTSHE-SysO

     

    030:=TTSHE-SysB

     

     

    and it's not finding a value and drops into the default.

     

     

  • Jason_Hook_4092's avatar
    Jason_Hook_4092
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    Dec 03, 2009
    I think I have it...

    data group is back to original space delimited 

    when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  Set the default target pool 
 set defaultTarget "TTSHE-SysD" 
  
 if {[HTTP::header exists "BETAFirm"]} { 
  Set $firm to the value of the header 
 set firm [HTTP::header "BETAFirm"] 
 log local0.info "Set Firm to $firm" 
  Set $target to the pool name from the lookup table 
 set pair [class search -name SysPools starts_with $firm] 
 log local0.info "Returned '$pair' pair from search" 
 set target [getfield $pair " " 2] 
 log local0.info "Set Target to '$target' from table" 
  check for a mismatch resulting in a blank pool name and set to default if blank 
 if { $target eq "" }{ 
 log local0.info "Setting Target to default $defaultTarget" 
 set target $::defaultTarget 
 } 
  Forward request to the set pool 
 log local0.info "Forwarding request to pool $target" 
 pool $target 
 } else { 
  No Header found...send to default pool 
 log local0.info "No Header...Forwarding to default pool $defaultTarget" 
 pool $defaultTarget 
 } 
 }

    This works as expected.

    Thank you for your assistance.