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Benson01_160074's avatar
Benson01_160074
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Jul 16, 2014

Disconnect iControl if user is idle?

Powershell script:   Initialize-F5.iControl -hostname 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx' -credentials (Get-Credential) Read-Host 'Input' User idles and never enters an input while ($true) { Never reaches ...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Jul 16, 2014

There is no "persistent" connection with iControl. When you call "Initialize" with credentials, it tests a connection with those creds and, if that succeeds, caches them locally in the internal iControl.Interfaces object (returned from the Get-F5.iControl cmdlet). All calls to the BIG-IP are separate HTTPS connections with independent authorization so there really isn't anything to "disconnect".

If you want to "uninitialize" the Interfaces object, you can do something like this

(Get-F5.iControl).ConnectionInfo.creds.UserName = ""

And then subsequent calls will fail with a 401 Authorization required error until you call Initialize-F5.iControl again.

As for a timed input prompt, Read-Host doesn't support that. Do a search for "powershell read-host timeout" and there are some solutions out there for rolling your own.

-Joe

-Joe