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dan_03_140075
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Apr 03, 2014

Passing credential to New-Object iControl.Interfaces

Hello, big fan of powershell and icontrol. The F5 DevCentral has been awesome to get up and running. I have been using $cred = (get-credential) Initialize-F5.iControl -HostName $g_bigip -credentials...
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dan_03_140075
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Apr 22, 2014
Its possible to run an icontrol command on the wrong bigip. Think its pretty easy to forget which bigip you are connected to. I have developed a menu driven script that actually helps to mitigate this to a large degree and there are other methods (change ps prompt to reflect bigip name?), but I would like to use the menu system and once a actions/tasks is completed, disconnect. Go back to menu selections and re-init as need be. At the mo my script does this and its only if you break out of it, that you have an "unknown" open init to a bigip still...