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Jan 14, 2014

Created a new F5 partition -- now I'm getting an exception with my iControl automation (java api)

Hi folks -- I wrote a java program that uses iControl to 'toggle' certain nodes off and on (set_session_enabled_state) to direct network flow for test cases. On our F5, I was using the 'Common' parti...
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Jan 15, 2014

Thanks David - I created the 2nd partition because we have some objects that use almost identical hostnames, and I figured it would be easier to keep them straight....Now I'm not so sure.

 

I supposed I could fix the code to add the partition name, but what I'm not understanding is why I'm suddenly "in" the newly created partition, instead of Common by default? I wonder if there's an F5 setting to make users interact with Common by default. Certainly when I log into the GUI I see Common as the active partition.