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Andy_Herrman_22
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusiControl and Apache Tomcat
I'm new to both BIG-IP and the SOAP model that iControl seems to follow, so forgive me if I'm just being stupid.
We are using BIG-IP to load balance a few servers which are running Apache Tomcat. We would like the tomcat servers to be able to connect to BIG-IP via iControl in order to change some things at runtime (mostly the ratios used for load balancing). Unfortunately I don't even know where to start in order to get this to work.
Does anyone have any experience getting Tomcat machines to use iControl? Any suggestions on how to start, or articles/other forum posts that might help? Thanks!
- By saying you need Tomcat machines to use iControl, I interpret that to mean that you have java web applications running under tomcat that need to make iControl calls. If so, then look in the SDK for the apache axis samples. These are console apps, but the logic should be the same for embedding into java based web applications. In fact, BIG-IP's GUI runs under tomcat and it makes iControl calls to the underlying system for certain things so I know it's possible.
-Joe 
Andy_Herrman_22Yea, we have some servlets that will need to make iControl calls.
Are there any packages I'll need to get on top of the axis stuff? The quickstart guide for Java seemed a bit out of date (it mentioned using the apache SOAP packages, which are deprecated and according to your support matrix it isn't even supported anymore).
