For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

Adidasn2014_147's avatar
Adidasn2014_147
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Nov 01, 2016

Customising Indivual Objects

Hi, if you want to customize an individual object etc would you use Iapps or Irules for this, i understand if your change or modifying an application you can use Iapps.  
application delivery
iapp
iApps
irule
iRules
crodriguez's avatar
crodriguez
Ret. Employee
Nov 02, 2016

As Pete indicated, iApps and iRules are two different BIG-IP "tools" with two completely different purposes. iApps are used to deploy and manage common application configurations, such as Exchange. You can change the application's configuration data using the iApp's Reconfigure function or manually (using Configuration utility or tmsh) if you turn Strict Updates off. (The latter is not generally recommended.) Without an iApp, you must manually create and maintain configuration using either the Configuration utility (GUI), tmsh, or the iControl API from an external program.)

 

iRules themselves don't do anything with respect to updating configuration data. iRules are used to control traffic behavior during traffic processing.