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Jonathan_Scholi
Jan 27, 2012Cirrostratus
iControl Proxy
According to the email promoting Enterprise Manager 2.3, this new version of Enterprise Manager has iControl Proxy functionality. I contacted support for more information and they referred me to the forums. Are the iControl Proxy methods going to be added to the iControl Assembly packages?
- hooleylistCirrostratusThe iControl proxy feature in EM allows you to make iControl calls via EM to other LTMs that EM is managing. iControl already supports connecting to an LTM via a web proxy. The iRule Editor implements this. Or am I missing your question?
- mhite_60883CirrocumulusHistorically support sends anyone that mentions iControl to the forum... they are allergic to it. ;)
- Jonathan_ScholiCirrostratusHi Aaron,
- hooleylistCirrostratusI think that's one of the primary use cases for the EM iControl proxy feature.
- The iControl proxy for EM will be a true proxy to the LTMs. You will configure your iControl client to point to the EM device and by using the methods in the iControl.Management.EM interface, you can tell EM which device you would like to be connected to. Then all further iControl calls you make to the EM will be sent on to the selected LTM device. I believe I updated all the assemblies with these new methods in the latest iControl 11.1 assemblies. So, when you have a EM setup with the proxy, you should be able to use the latest libraries to make use of the proxy.
- Jonathan_ScholiCirrostratusHere's all that's in the 11.1 iControl.Management.EM interface:
package iControl; public interface ManagementEM extends javax.xml.rpc.Service { /** * The EM interface enables the user to perform enterprise management * daemon requests. */ public java.lang.String getManagementEMPortAddress(); public iControl.ManagementEMPortType getManagementEMPort() throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException; public iControl.ManagementEMPortType getManagementEMPort(java.net.URL portAddress) throws javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException; }
- You are looking in the ManagementEM.java class. That is just the interface wrapper container. You'll want to look in the ManagementEMBindingStub.class file for all of the method bindings. I just verified that the v11.1 java libs on DC have the 4 Management.EM methods.
- Jonathan_ScholiCirrostratusThanks, Joe. I see that now.
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