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Amit_4274
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Oct 30, 2013

Authentication irule to calculate authentication response time

We have to build a script to monitor the service availability by simulating the browser actions like invoke the service, submit the credentials etc. The script needs to do the following   1)Reques...
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John_Alam_45640
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Oct 31, 2013

This is doable via an iCall Script and Handler combination. An icall script is essentially a TMSH script. Click here for more on iCalls.

 

The script first sends a GET /servicemon and analyzes the response. If code 1, then it sends a POST (to the URI specified as the form action) with username1 & Password1, if code2 send username2/password2. In both cases the response can be analyzed by the same iCall script and the log updated accordingly.

 

To finish the job, you would use a "Prepetual" iCall Handler. The handler is like a daemon which runs periodically and executes the iCall script.

 

There are other ways to do this via an external script and a cron job but, the setup would not be saved with the BigIP configuration.

 

Note, iCalls are possible as of 11.3 but full support is in 11.4.