Creating a VLAN puts F5 into INOPERATIVE mode

It looks as if you are using the API correctly if the VLAN is created. As to why it's causing an INOPERATIVE state, is likely due to the fact on the parameters you've passed in. You are putting "5" in for the failsafe_timeout. The default value in the GUI is 90 seconds. You might want to bump that up a bit. The other thing that sticks out is the MAC Masquerade address you are passing in of 00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00. Not sure if that is valid for a shared MAC address.

 

 

I'd go with these steps in diagnosing the problem.

 

 

1. Create the VLAN in the GUI with your parameters.

 

2. Check the ssh connection to make sure it is not in the INOPERATIVE state.

 

3. Go into the admin GUI and look at the properties for that VLAN.

 

4. Create a VLAN with your iControl code.

 

5. Go into the admin GUI and compare the values with the ones from the GUI created VLAN.

 

6. Check the ssl connection to make sure it is not in the INOPERATIVE state.

 

 

If the configuration is identical between the two VLANs and the iControl created on is the only one causing an INOPERATIVE state, let me know. We may have to escalate this to product support.

 

 

-Joe