Bug ID 523863: istats help not clear for negative increment

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.2.1, 11.4.1, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.4.1 HF10, 11.2.1 HF15

Opened: May 18, 2015

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

The help for the istats command line tool was not clear on how to specify a negative increment for a gauge iStat.

Impact

Bash shell would print a cryptic error and the help did not clarify how to make it work

Conditions

Try to increment a gauge iStat by a negative amount using the istats command line tool.

Workaround

Research bash shell options for the cryptic error.

Fix Information

The help for the istats command line was augmented to clearly state that the double-dash option should be specified before the negative number.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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