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Nick_T1
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Aug 09, 2014

Modifying external datagroup within an irule

Hi all, I'm attempting to log certain requests to an external datagroup in order to provide the logged data to management. The situation is we are testing out a new design of our site. I've got worki...
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Aug 09, 2014

Here's an example of an REST call we use to instruct the F5 to pull a datagroup from our Adobe CQ CMS;-

 

curl -k -u cd_user:cd_user -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{"name":"dg_www.company.com.au_uri_longest","partition":"~CompanyDigital","source-path": "http://10.200.58.96:4502/etc/tools/f5mappings.txt.html?match=longest"}' https://10.200.58.180/mgmt/tm/sys/file/data-group/~CompanyDigital~dg_www.company.com.au_uri_longest

 

I have another idea - you could use a Sideband connection to write a new datagroup entry to an external file (this would involve having an external system to host the file and accept writes via the sideband connection), and then use an iCall/iStat to trigger the external datagroup update from the external file. I'm pretty sure that would work.