iControl Guru Question

Hello,

 

 

I've used the F5 BigIP 'iControl' API pretty extensively and have only run into one issue that I have not been able to resolve.

 

I have a pretty good idea that the issue isn't with 'iControl', but rather the F5 BigIP appliance that I am utilizing for some testing that I've been doing.

 

 

In particular, the 'iControl' method I'm having an issue with is the:

 

 

System.ConfigSync.download_configuration()

 

 

method.

 

There are 9 config files (that I am aware of) on an F5 BigIP appliance.

 

I can get 7 of them with no problem. But 2 of them, at the appliance locations:

 

 

/defaults/config_base.conf

 

/usr/share/monitors/base_monitors.conf

 

 

The error that I'm able to glean from repeated attempts at downloading these 2 files using the System.ConfigSync.download_configuration() method says:

 

 

Exception: Common::OperationFailed primary_error_code : 16908289 (0x01020001) secondary_error_code : 0 error_string : Error opening file for read operations

 

 

I have investigated this ‘16908289’ error code via Google. As far as I can tell, it’s indicating that a file lock is ‘taken’ by something and the API call cannot even read the file without that lock being ‘free’.

 

 

My user acct on the BigIP appliance has full-on permissions (like 'root' for Unix/Linux), so I doubt it has anything to do with permissions.

 

 

Am using iControl v10.2.0 (Perl) API.

 

By the way, I'm using the download_configuration() method in a way that downloads files in 'one fell swoop' (i.e. not using all of that fancy 'chunk_size' rigamarole with loops, etc.)...using a rather large 'chunk_size':

 

 

my $soapResponse = $session->download_file(

 

SOAP::Data->name(file_name => $filename),

 

SOAP::Data->name(chunk_size => $chunk_size_val),

 

SOAP::Data->name(file_offset => 0)

 

);

 

 

~snovakov