MONITOR_RULE_TYPE_NONE

Sorry for the delay in getting the response posted. I needed to verify some details before getting a response.

 

 

Anyways, the MonitorRuleType::MONITOR_RULE_TYPE_NONE actually should only be returned from get_monitor_association( ). MonitorRuleType::MONITOR_RULE_TYPE_UNDEFINED is used to indicate an uninitialized state. They are NOT meant to be used to disable monitoring. I'll update the iControl SDK documentation to clearly indicate this, and will update the iControl code to raise an exception when these monitor rule types are passed in to the set_monitor_association( ).

 

 

Currently, one has to remove the monitor associations to disable monitoring, and re-add them to enable monitoring. You can do this in iControl using the remove_monitor_association and set_monitor_association methods respectively.

 

 

The health monitor system design is such that there's no way to temporarily disable monitoring on an object without removing the monitor associations first. I'll enter a request for this enhancement.

 

 

Regards,

 

Loc

As an update to my last post, although generally you'll have to remove the association to disable monitoring and re-add the association to re-enable monitoring (and this is true for the pool), you can also theoretically temporarily disable monitoring by disabling the monitor template. For example, from the CLI, you can do this by "bp monitor http instance disable", or with iControl, use the Monitor::set_template_state (DISABLED). This will disable monitoring of all the affected objects that are using the "http" monitor template.

 

 

Or, as an alternative, you can specifically disable certain monitor instances by using the "bp monitor http instance x.x.x.x:y disable" from the CLI, or using the Monitor::set_instance_state ( ).

 

 

Regards,

 

Loc

Alright.

 

 

As a separate issue with monitors I am getting a weird error while trying to get all monitors that are created on an F5. I invoke get_template_list() method on a LocalLBMonitorBindingStub obj and get this error:

 

 

{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

 

at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.SimpleDeserializer.onEndElement(SimpleDeserializer.java:176)

 

at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializerImpl.endElement(DeserializerImpl.java:502)

 

at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)

 

at org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.java:171)

 

at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:1140)

 

at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.deserialize(RPCElement.java:347)

 

at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.getParams(RPCElement.java:386)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2437)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2336)

 

at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1793)

 

at iControl.LocalLBMonitorBindingStub.get_template_list(LocalLBMonitorBindingStub.java:908)

 

at lbControl.Test.main(Test.java:35)

 

 

where line 35 in Test.java is:

 

 

m_monitor.get_template_list();

 

 

m_monitor is a LocalLBMonitorBindingStub obj and it binds fine since I can invoke other methods on it and get their results without issues. Any idea what is causing this problem?

 

 

Lerna

 

 

 

Any news on this one?

 

 

Lerna

I'm not sure why you're getting this error, but it looks like a client-side deserialization error from Apache Axis toolkit. I've been running get_template_list method over and over, and there seems to be no problem.

 

 

This is what the actual XML payloads look like for both the request and response. Can you check to see if you're getting something similar to this?

 

 

=====================

 

REQUEST

 

=====================

 

 

POST /iControl/iControlPortal.cgi HTTP/1.1

 

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol 1.0.3705.6018)

 

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

 

SOAPAction: "urn:iControl:LocalLB/Monitor"

 

Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=

 

Content-Length: 496

 

Expect: 100-continue

 

Host: localhost:8080

 

 

 

xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

 

xmlns:tns="urn:iControl"

 

xmlns:types="urn:iControl/encodedTypes"

 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=====================

 

RESPONSE

 

=====================

 

 

 

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

 

 

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

 

Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:40:45 GMT

 

Server: Apache

 

Set-Cookie: BIGIPAuthCookie=368F251F0C5DBA5780F668F2C9FBB18A6FBA8ED4; path=/; Secure;

 

SOAPServer: EasySoap++/0.6

 

Connection: close

 

Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"

 

 

xmlns:E="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

 

xmlns:A="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

 

xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

 

xmlns:y="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

 

xmlns:iControl="urn:iControl"

 

E:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">

 

 

xmlns:m="urn:iControl:LocalLB/Monitor">

 

s:type="A:Array"

 

A:arrayType="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate[28]">

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">none

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_NONE

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">icmp

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_ICMP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">gateway_icmp

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_GATEWAY_ICMP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">tcp_echo

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_TCP_ECHO

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">tcp

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_TCP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">tcp_half_open

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_TCP_HALF_OPEN

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">http

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_HTTP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">external

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_EXTERNAL

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">udp

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_UDP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">ftp

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_FTP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">nntp

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_NNTP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">pop3

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_POP3

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">smtp

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_SMTP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">imap

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_IMAP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">radius

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_RADIUS

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">ldap

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_LDAP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">mssql

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_MSSQL

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">oracle

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_ORACLE

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">scripted

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_SCRIPTED

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">wap

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_WAP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">wmi

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_WMI

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">real_server

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_REAL_SERVER

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">snmp_dca

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_SNMP_DCA

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">snmp_dca_base

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_SNMP_DCA_BASE

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">https

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_HTTPS

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">sip

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_SIP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">soap

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_SOAP

 

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.MonitorTemplate">

 

s:type="y:string">https_443

 

s:type="iControl:LocalLB.Monitor.TemplateType">TTYPE_HTTPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ran ssldump on the F5 and captured the request/response pair for get_template_list. It is quite similar to what you had. I replaced all the axis related jars with the latest from apache site. I still get the same error. I do not see how this is an issue with the axis toolkit deserializer since I can successfully invoke get_list on pools, virtuals,etc. without a problem. Could this be related to a versioning problem? What version of axis and iControl do you have?

 

 

 

Lerna

To shed some more light on this problem I'm sending you the code that I use to reproduce it.

 

 

String os = System.getProperty("os.name");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", System.getProperty("user.home") + "/.keystore");
String m_endpoint = "https://:@:/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi";
LocalLBMonitorBindingStub m_monitor = (LocalLBMonitorBindingStub)
new LocalLBMonitorLocator().getLocalLBMonitorPort(new java.net.URL(m_endpoint));
m_monitor.setTimeout(300);
m_monitor.get_template_list(); 

 

 

Replace ,,, with your own values. As you can see I am not doing anything fancy but simply binding and invoking get_template_list(). I run my code on a Linux box from within Eclipse. I have no problems getting list of pools, virtuals and so on from the same F5 in this same setup using iControl sdk methods for pools,virtuals,etc. This is why I think axis should not be the problem. Let me know what your suggestion is to track this down.

 

 

Lerna

Lerna,

 

 

We're actively looking into this issue, and will post back here as soon as we have further information.

 

 

Regards,

 

Loc

ok. Thanks for the update.

 

 

Lerna

Any updates on this? Please let me know.

 

 

Lerna