System and method for auto-tab completion of context sensitive remote managed objects in a traffic director environment

A method for auto-tab completion of context sensitive remote managed objects in a server environment, comprising the following computer-implemented steps of:

• providing a server environment having one or more traffic director instances,
• wherein each of the traffic director instances
• acts as a load balancer when processing client requests, and
• reads a configuration when the traffic director instance starts to determine run-time behavior of the traffic director instance,
• wherein the configuration defines a plurality of remote back-end objects;
• providing an interface that allows input of a command-line having an autocompletion feature for remote objects from the plurality of remote back-end objects that are able to be configured by the user at the command-line;
• and
• in response to an instruction from a user to invoke the autocompletion feature,
• determining the remote back-end objects that are able to be configured by the user at the command-line based on a context of the command-line at the time of invocation,
• wherein the context of the command-line is determined based on entry and syntax of any command name, option, operand or portions thereof in the command-line at the time of invocation,
• using the determined remote back-end objects to one of autocomplete input of the command-line or provide a list of the determined remote back-end objects for input into the command-line to thereby enable configuration of the determined remote back-end objects by the user.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the following computer-implemented steps comprising:

• providing a server environment having one or more traffic director instances,
• wherein each of the traffic director instances
• acts as a load balancer when processing client requests, and
• reads a configuration when the traffic director instance starts to determine run-time behavior of the traffic director instance,
• wherein the configuration defines a plurality of remote back-end objects;
• and
• providing an interface that allows input of a command-line, wherein the interface provides an autocompletion feature for remote objects from the plurality of remote back-end objects that are able to be configured by the user at the command-line;
• and
• in response to an instruction from a user to invoke the feature,
• determining the remote back-end objects that are able to be configured by the user at the command-line based on a context of the command-line at the time of invocation,
• wherein the context of the command-line is determined based on entry and syntax of any command name, option, operand or portions thereof in the command-line at the time of invocation,
• using the determined remote back-end objects to one of autocomplete input of the command-line or provide a list of the determined remote back-end objects for input into the command-line to thereby enable configuration of the determined remote back-end objects by the user.