CirrusIs there any way to use iControlREST to search for a virtual server by IP address, that doesn't involve returning all virtual servers and filtering the results? There's an individual using my LTM PowerShell module who has 2500 virtual servers and they need to search them by IP address. Currently it's taking up to 3 hours for results. Thanks.
EmployeeYou need to get all the virtuals and filter on the client side. Yes, it may take some time to generate and transfer 2,500 virtuals information, but you can trim the amount of data (slightly). The following iControl REST call uses the tmsh
destinationcurl -sku : https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual?options=destination
To further trim, use the
$selectcurl -sku : https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual?options=destination\&\$select=destination,or,fullPath
Let us know if the call reduced the execution time.
Also, check how long it would take for the equivalent tmsh command to complete: e.g.,
time tmsh list ltm virtual destinationAnother option is to run Unix
grep/config/bigip.confcurl -sku : https:///mgmt/tm/util/bash \
-X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" \
-d "{\"command\":\"run\", \"utilCmdArgs\": \"-c '/tmp/sat 172.16.10.30:80'\"}" |
python -m json.tool | grep commandResult | sed 's/\\n/\n/g'
where
/tmp/sat!/bin/bash
grep -A 4 'ltm virtual ' /config/bigip.conf | egrep 'virtual|destination' | grep -B 1 $1
(you can directly put the series of greps in the iControl REST call itself but escaping the nested quotes properly would be fairly cumbersome).
I know. It does look ugly.
EmployeeP.S. I measured the performance of iControl REST GET against 2,500+ virtuals on my box and it took me only 3s. The returned json object is 3 MB in size. I don't know why it takes 3 hours in your environment.