Sarath_Chandra
Oct 23, 2019Nimbostratus
List of Load Balancing Mode values for iControl Rest API Call
Hi, My name is Sarath, we are working on Automating the F5 LTM Pool / Pool Members / Monitor Creation using F5 API Calls. I am trying to find the different Load Balancing Mode values available that ...
- Oct 23, 2019
You can find the list of load-balancing methods from tmsh help. Run the command below from your console:
# tmsh help ltm pool
The command yields
load-balancing-mode [ dynamic-ratio-member | dynamic-ratio-node | fastest-app-response | fastest-node | least-connections-members | least-connections-node | least-sessions | observed-member | observed-node | predictive-member | predictive-node | ratio-least-connections-member | ratio-least-connections-node | ratio-member | ratio-node | ratio-session | round-robin | weighted-least-connections-member | weighted-least-connections-node]
You can get the same information from the Configuration Utility (GUI) too: Just click the Help tab.
You can do the same with iControl REST, however, there is no direct iControl REST API for tmsh help, unfortunately. So, you need to call /mgmt/tm/util/bash to call tmsh to get a desired help (I know, it's awkward).
# curl -sku admin:<pass> https://<mgmtIP>/mgmt/tm/util/bash \ -X POST \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"command":"run", "utilCmdArgs":"-c \"tmsh help ltm pool\""}'
You may want to pipe the output to the following python one-liner for readability:
| python -c 'import sys,json; o=json.load(sys.stdin); print o["commandResult"]'
I hope this helps.