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Sep 23, 2013

Handling self-signed certs with java and iControl

Hi folks -- I'd like to write a couple simple java classes to automate some tasks in our F5 LTM (such as enabling/disabling certain nodes).   To get started I downloaded iControlAssembly_11_3_0-Ja...
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Sep 23, 2013

Thanks Joe -- I spent a couple hours down a nasty rat hole of SSL certificate importing to the eclipse client, etc.

 

So I have to edit my 'hosts' file on the client with this line: my f5's ip address localhost.localdomain

 

And then in the java code, the string for the F5 hostname is literally "localhost.localdomain" That does work, but looks odd.