Create iFile through iControl???

Posted By Jason Rahm on 07/03/2012 03:08 PM

 

Hi Gavin, I think that is the path to the file on your local system, not the BIG-IP, but I haven't used the iFile interface yet.

 

Jason

 

 

Unfortunately it looks like it's expecting a local BigIP File-system path...

 

 

I tried with the local path on my PC and it failed with:

 

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST https://test-f5:443/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi HTTP/1.1

 

Accept: text/xml

 

Accept: multipart/*

 

Accept: application/soap

 

Authorization: Basic Z2F2aW53OmZhN21jZ2F2Lg==

 

Content-Length: 703

 

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

 

SOAPAction: "urn:iControl:LocalLB/iFileFilecreate"

 

 

="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" soap:encodingStyle="http://sch

 

emas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

 

DISCOVERYWS-1-0D:\Products\Schemas\schemas\DISCOVERYWS-1-0.dtd

 

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

 

Connection: close

 

...

 

 

xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

 

xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 

 

 

xsi:type="xsd:string">SOAP-ENV:Server

 

xsi:type="xsd:string">Exception caught in LocalLB::urn:iControl:LocalLB/iFileFile::create()

 

Common::InvalidArgument

 

 

 

 

 

SOAP-ENV:Server Exception caught in LocalLB::urn:iControl:LocalLB/iFileFile::create()

 

Common::InvalidArgument

 

 

If I copy the file onto the F5 and change the path, it works...

 

Attempting to create iFileFile...

 

Local Path = /tmp/DISCOVERYWS-1-0.dtd

 

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST https://test-f5:443/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi HTTP/1.1

 

Accept: text/xml

 

Accept: multipart/*

 

Accept: application/soap

 

Authorization: Basic Z2F2aW53OmZhN21jZ2F2Lg==

 

Content-Length: 680

 

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

 

SOAPAction: "urn:iControl:LocalLB/iFileFilecreate"

 

 

="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" soap:encodingStyle="http://sch

 

emas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

 

DISCOVERYWS-1-0/tmp/DISCOVERYWS-1-0.dtd

 

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

 

...

 

 

xmlns:E="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

 

xmlns:A="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

 

xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

 

xmlns:y="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

 

xmlns:iControl="urn:iControl"

 

E:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">

 

 

xmlns:m="urn:iControl:LocalLB/iFileFile">

 

 

 

Soap call was successful.

 

 

Unfortunately that does complicate things as I've now got to work out a way of copying the file onto F5 and then running the iFile create?

 

 

Feels like a good candidate for an improvement to the iControl interface...

 

 

Cheers

 

Gavin