Class Management Widget

A Class management widget allows you to view and modify the classes associated with iRules for devices. By grouping objects into classes and assigning actions to the classes, users are able to configure ADC devices within AppViewX. There is no need to access the ADC devices directly, which eliminates the chance of crashing a box with syntactically incorrect commands.

iRule is a flexible feature that lets the user manage or customize their application traffic. Classes are usually defined within an iRule. String, Address, Integer are different kinds of classes. The following section explains data group/classes and their types.

Data Group/Classes

A data group is a simple group of related elements like a set of IP addresses of a class.

Data groups can be one of the following types:

• Address: An address data group consists of a collection of IP addresses.

• String: A string address group consists of a group of strings, such as *.jpg.

• Integer: An integer data group consists of a group of integers.

• External File: You have the option to store data groups in an external file. The benefit of storing data groups in an external file is the data does not need to be sorted by the system when it is loaded because it is stored outside of the bigip.conf file. The elements in the external data group file should be stored in comma-separated lists with a newline character after each entry. Refer to the BIG-IP Configuration Guide for more details about Data Groups.