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Srinath_Sadda_1
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AltostratusiControl PowerShell Authentication Behavior (Initialize-F5.iControl)
Hello, I've the below sample code snippet to retrieve pool member statistics. F5 LTM v11.4.1 In my assumption, "Initialize-F5.iControl" Cmdlet establishes only one authentication request to F...
Srinath_Sadda_1Altostratus
AltostratusHi Michael,
Thank you so much for your detailed explanation. So by using the above code snippet to retrieve pool statistics, I'm making several thousands of authentication calls... is there any alternative or better way of retrieving pool member statistics for a given set of pools?
Thanks.
Each iControl method call makes a separate HTTP request. The Authentication headers are passed with each HTTP request so there is no extra authentication overhead besides the auth header in the HTTP request.