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Bevan_Thomson_9
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Feb 08, 2012

PermissionDenied without even trying

Hi All,     I've come across a strange situation with the powershell icontrol setup I have. I've written a script which (when working) will loop through our LTM estate gathering info and storin...
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tinymontgomery_
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Jan 08, 2015

I disassembled the icontrolplugin and added some debugging code to figure this out. Unfortunately what I learned was that if any exception happens during this call it will always return a hard coded PermissionDenied error. I changed the code to return the actual exception encountered and in my case I actually had a root web.config issue related to my company's app that was preventing icontrol to load one of the core webrequest objects in .net. Once I could actually see the exception I was running into it took me less then 5 mins to fix. Lesson to the kids...never hard code an exception.