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Paolo_Perego_91's avatar
Paolo_Perego_91
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Oct 17, 2006

Newbie: how much can I interact to appliance?

Hi guys, my company is planning to use BIG-IP appliance as reverse proxy in our IT infrastructure.

 

For storing user activity I've managed to write a tool to collect reverse proxies log file, in RAW format without any sort of manipulation.

 

 

Is it possible to ask, via SOAP (of course https), BIG-IP to upload for me a log file? In addiction is it possible to let the appliance run some programs (e.g. tar and gnuzip) for me?

 

 

Thanks a lot

 

 

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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Oct 17, 2006
    The System::ConfigSync::upload_file() and download_file() methods will allow for generic uploading and downloading of files to the BIG-IP filesystem from the maching running your iControl client. We currently don't support having BIG-IP be the initiator of a file transfer to another system. Also, there is no programmatic way to execute programs on the filesystem. Imagine accidentally sending a "rm -rf /"... Granted certain areas are protected from the iControl process, but this would cause just enough damage to make things unworkable. We decided early on to not include this feature.

     

     

    -Joe