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Andrea_Arquint
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Mar 29, 2012

iControl permissions

Hi there     Is it possible to set operator permissions to the icontrol api user on the F5 bigip?   I just want that icontrol requests are able only to enable or disable pool members.   ...
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Andrea_Arquint
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Mar 30, 2012
Hello

 

 

I have a further question.

 

 

 

We plan to use icontrol interface to stear pool member inactivation/activation via Microsoft's WFF (Web Farm Framework). The iControl api runs for example on a web server with IIS installed.

 

 

 

How do I configure API access to a floating self-ip address?

 

As far as I see it's only possible to access the bigip via 443 on a dedicated self-ip but not on a floating one.

 

 

 

This means if someone wants to disable a pool member via icontrol he needs to know first, which bigip cluster member is the active one.

 

 

 

Does that mean that the api developer needs to ask first which LTM is the active one?

 

 

 

 

 

Many thanx for your help

 

 

 

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