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Sep 30, 2012

Is iControl automatically available on LTM?

Hi --   We're running LTM version 9.4.6. I don't believe that we are using iControl at all, but we may want to start using it. Ignoring for the moment the iControl client, does the server side o...
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Posted By Joe on 10/01/2012 01:27 PM

 

@wlepkin - no problem, glad to help!

 

@What Lies Beneath - iControl uses the same auth mechanism as the BIG-IP admin GUI so any way you have that configured should work with iControl as it's going through the same auth module on the web server.

 

-Joe

 

 

 

Great to know it. So any request invoking via external will go to the same place like invoking via GUI.