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AhmedGalal219_3
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Dec 11, 2017

how to activate icontrol in f5 big-ip

when i try to configure solarwinds polling i got this massage: Connection attempt failed! F5 iControl is unavailable on the node. Verify the F5 iControl port, the protocol, and the F5 iControl versio...
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Andy_McGrath
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Dec 11, 2017

You don't need to do anything to enable iControl it is simply part of the HTTPS management access.

Are you connecting from SolarWinds to the management interface or a self IP?

If a Self IP are you allowing HTTPS in the port lockdown (K13250: Overview of port lockdown behavior (10.x - 11.x))?

You can test access using curl with the following (change the password and F5 IP to match your devices)

curl –sk –u admin: https:///mgmt/tm/

As for the icrd daemons, it is a non-core service but should be running on the underlying Linux system. On Bash you can run 'ps -A' to see if it is running.