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John_Spear_4749
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Mar 09, 2006

Network Enginner Needs to Implement Oracle OEM iControl Integration

I am a network engineer that has an Oracle DBA asking me to "turn on iControl" in a 9.x BIG-IP. I understand iControl is a development environment. I opened a case with TAC and got a standard answer that says we don't do iControl, look at DevCentral or pay for a professional services engagement.

 

 

Is there any documentation on preparing a BIG-IP to use iControl developed code? Is it the responsibility of the developer, Oracle in my case, to provide all information regarding the implementation of iControl based functionality?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

John

 

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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Mar 10, 2006
    John,

     

     

    iControl is a webservice (SOAP) interface on our devices that is always on. The only way to turn it off is to disable the administrative web GUI which most likely isn't common practice.

     

     

    The only thing you are going to have to provide your DBA is a set of login credentials that correspond to the levels of operation you want them to be able to do (iControl is run through the administrative HTTPS port). A "Guest" level account would have read-only access (ie get* methods). An "Operator" level account would be able perform all read operations as well as enabling or disabling objects. An "Administrator" account will have access to the entire API set.

     

     

    I hope this answers your question (let me know if you need more details). Basicially a username and password is all you have to provide to enable an existing application to work.

     

     

    -Joe
  • John_Spear_4749's avatar
    John_Spear_4749
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    Mar 10, 2006
    Joe,

     

     

    Thanks

     

     

    With the information you proivde and some infomration I found on Oracle's site, I am on my way.

     

     

    Regards
  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Mar 10, 2006
    Great. Feel free to post any issued that come up and we'll see what we can do to help you out.

     

     

    -Joe
  • Andrew_Johnson1's avatar
    Andrew_Johnson1
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    Oct 09, 2006
    On this same topic, the Oracle documentation regarding this integration has the following pre-requisite:

     

     

    "F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager configured to accept iControl web services calls from the Agent computer"

     

     

    Is this what you mean by needing to set up a userid and password for Oracle?

     

     

    Thanks for any assistance you can render.

     

     

    Andrew
  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Oct 09, 2006
    I believe so. The only configuration on the BIG-IP is a user account that you would like to use for the connection.

     

     

    -Joe