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Mayank_Shukla's avatar
Mayank_Shukla
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Aug 30, 2017

Beginner's question on iControl

Hi,   I am new to iControl. Can someone explain me please how icontrolsdk or powershell etc. are beneficial while same configuration tasks can be done via f5 GUI or tmsh command line.  
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Jad_Tabbara__J1's avatar
Jad_Tabbara__J1
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Aug 30, 2017

Hello Mayank,

 

Using icontrol you can manage your F5 remotly without having access to the GUI or F5 shell in ssh.

 

So you can make API calls to get/post content to/from the F5.

 

Regards