fim / a10ctl

A10 loadbalancer management tool

A10ctl

a10ctl is a small script to manage servers within A10 lb partitions. The initial intend for this was to use it for automating deployments of core components by managing the A10 for seamless upgrades.

Currenly we support:

• Listing all servers
• Enabling a server
• Disabling a server
• Backing up running conf

Install

There are a few different ways you can install t:

• Use setuptools: pip install git+ssh://[e-mail]/fim/a10ctl.git
• Download the zipfile from github page and install it.
• Checkout the source: git clone git://[e-mail]/fim/a10ctl.git and install it yourself.

Usage

All examples assume you have already setup your api key!

List all servers:

$ a10ctl -H a10.example.com -u admin -p foobar list

Mark server as inactive:

$ a10ctl -H a10.example.com -u admin -p foobar down server-name

Mark a server as active:

$ a10ctl -H a10.example.com -u admin -p foobar up server-name

Check statistics for a single server

$ a10ctl -H a10.example.com -u admin -p foobar stats server-name

Backup running conf:

$ a10ctl -H a10.example.com -u admin -p foobar backup

Use conf files to pass arguments:

$ a10ctl -c conf/test.conf list