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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 19, 2007
You do not need to specify a filename for SAVE_BASE_LEVEL_CONFIG or SAVE_HIGH_LEVEL_CONFIG as they are saved to /config/bigip_base.conf and /config/bigip.conf respectively. This iControl method essentually executes the following bigpipe commands

 

 

SAVE_BASE_LEVEL_CONFIG -> "bigpipe base save"

 

SAVE_HIGH_LEVEL_CONFIG -> "bigpipe save"

 

 

 

If the return from the above bigpipe commands reports an error, the "Error saving configuration" soap fault is returned.

 

 

I'd try to login to a ssh session and try to execute those commands manually and see if they work. I'm not sure why executing them from the CLI would be any different than from within the iControl portal though. Could be to do with user permissions so if you aren't using an admin account, you might try your iControl connection with different credentials to see if that makes a difference.

 

 

-Joe