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manc_63343
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Jan 09, 2010

Automatically take server out of service

I am a user of LTM. Our servers are configured in LTM. We have a need of writing something that will help us bring web servers out of service for a given VIP. This will help us in code upgrades, probl...
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Jan 11, 2010

Posted By manc on 01/09/2010 12:46 PM

 

 

Is icontrol an API or does it have to be manual? Can you please point me to the sample example and docs since I am new to this website? I am looking for something that can be automated and doesn't need a root access. Something where the access is limited to just my application vips. Could you please help a little and give me some advise as to how to go about it, or if it's even possible?

 

 

 

iControl is an API. We have documentation for the API in the iControl Wiki.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iControl/APIReference.html

 

Click here

 

 

 

The API wraps the functionality of the product admin GUI. My recommendation is to create the configuration you would like in the product GUI (with login settings/etc) and then access those settings with iControl. The user accounts are the same under the seams.

 

 

-Joe