iControl: Retrieve VIP Status & Count of Active Sessions By Real Host

Hi, Charles,

I'm not sure what language you want to use to query the F5 iControl, but I've put together a PowerShell module for checking the status of VIPs and pools, as well as getting session counts of pool members.

The trickiest part about using the iControl API is creating the session object you need to query and manipulate the F5. If you want to try that, and run into any issues with it, please let me know and I'll be happy to help.

Also, this page has some examples of how to use curl to query your F5 device.

Hope this helps. There's a bit of a learning curve when you first start, but once you're over that, you'll find you can to a lot of cool stuff programmatically.

-Joel

Yes, you can, there are plenty of examples on DevCentral. Exact code would depend on whether you want to use iControl SOAP API or REST API and a specific programming language.

Here is a link to a code example in Python using REST API:

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/connection-list-via-icontrolrest-api

iControl REST Documentation is here:

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/icontrolrest.homepage.ashx

iControl REST API User Guide in PDF can be downloaded here: https://devcentral.f5.com/d/the-user-guide-for-the-icontrol-rest-interface-in-big-ip-version-1160?download=true&vid=157:

Hope this helps,

Sam

Yes, you can, there are plenty of examples on DevCentral. Exact code would depend on whether you want to use iControl SOAP API or REST API and a specific programming language.

Here is a link to a code example in Python using REST API:

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/connection-list-via-icontrolrest-api

iControl REST Documentation is here:

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/icontrolrest.homepage.ashx

iControl REST API User Guide in PDF can be downloaded here: https://devcentral.f5.com/d/the-user-guide-for-the-icontrol-rest-interface-in-big-ip-version-1160?download=true&vid=157:

Hope this helps,

Sam