Using the bigpipe cli command (or it’s alias “b“) to add pools and virtual servers, can save you hundreds of clicks. This is a very old version of a bigip.

# uname -r
BIG-IP 4.5.14

This creates a pool named myserverpool and adds a single member to it:

# b pool myserverpool {member 172.16.11.201:80}

To add many servers just use a while loop:

# i=202; while [ "$i" -lt "237" ]; do b pool myserverpool add \{ member 172.16.11.$i:80 \}; i=$(($i+1)); done;

Repeat for https:

# b pool myserverpool_ssl {member 172.16.11.201:443}
# i=202; while [ "$i" -lt "237" ]; do b pool myserverpool_ssl add \{ member 172.16.11.$i:443 \}; i=$(($i+1)); done;

Now add health checks:

# i=201; while [ "$i" -lt "237" ]; do b node 172.16.11.$i:80 monitor use http; i=$(($i+1)); done;
# i=201; while [ "$i" -lt "237" ]; do b node 172.16.11.$i:443 monitor use https; i=$(($i+1)); done;

And finally create the virtual servers, pointing traffic to the corresponding pools:

# b virtual 5.6.7.8:80 use pool myserverpool
# b virtual 5.6.7.8:443 use pool myserverpool_ssl