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Justin_Kitagawa's avatar
Justin_Kitagawa
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Sep 18, 2007

Help! Java iControl API puts F5 in an unknown state.

Hi.     We are trying to initiate F5 objects in particular VLANs, SelfIPs, Nodes, Pools, and Virtual Servers via the F5 BIG-IP iControl SOAP API. We are coding this solution in Java.    ...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Sep 18, 2007
Problem 1: Not sure why created objects would not show up in the GUI. The only reason I could think for this would be that you are not passing all the required parameters and the iControl portal isn't flagging it as an error correctly. If you can get me a trace of the connection (SOAP Request/Response), I can check it out.

 

 

Problem 2: This one is easy. iControl methods will only change the running config. To persist the changes you've made, you'll have to make an explicit call to System.ConfigSync.save_configuration() to flush the config changes to disk. The Admin GUI does this implicitly with every page submission, but due to the overhead of the save command, and the possibly large number of consecutive iControl methods in a usage scenario, we decided to leave this as a manual step one must take. I guess we need to document this a little better.

 

 

Hope this helps...

 

 

-Joe