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I'm wondering if my problem is that I do not have permissions sufficient to run these calls.

 

 

When I go to the web interface, I can see the pools. I can view information about the members of the pools. I cannot change the status of the pools, nor create or remove members of the pools.

 

 

I can run a few API calls and get results. Everything having to do with pools seems to return no data or errors.

 

 

I am writing an application monitor that will disable a pool member should the application go down, and conversely enable a pool member should the application come back up.

 

 

If I were to go to the F5 administrator today and verify permissions, is there a way to describe the permissions that I need clearly? I've been banging my head against a wall for a very long time and I would like to be able to describe my needs clearly.

If you have a read-only account, then you should be able to get results from the get_list() methods. If you turn on SOAP tracing, you can get the raw request/response output which can sometimes find the root cause of issues.

use SOAP::Lite + trace => qw(method debug);

As for permissions to be able to toggle states, you will need to either be an Operator or Administrator.

-Joe

I did grab the raw xml and here is what I received:

        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/Pool">        s:type="A:Array"
        A:arrayType="y:string[0]">

If I open my browser and go to: https://myf5server/tmui/Control/jspmap/tmui/locallb/pool/list.jsp?Filter=*

I do see a list of 8 pools.

When I turn on the trace info as you stated above, I receive the following:

SOAP::Transport::new: ()
SOAP::Serializer::new: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::new: ()
SOAP:arser::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::new: ()
SOAP::Serializer::new: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::new: ()
SOAP:arser::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::new: ()
SOAP::Lite::call: ()
SOAP::Serializer::envelope: ()
SOAP::Serializer::envelope: get_list
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Data::new: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Request=HASH(0x86fe744)
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST https://myf5server:443/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
Authorization: Basic **REMOVED**
Content-Length: 428
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "urn:iControl:LocalLB/Poolget_list"  xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
  xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Response=HASH(0x8a18a10)
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:13:59 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
Client-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:00:53 GMT
Client-Peer: 171.64.11.167:443
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: /C=--/ST=WA/L=Seattle/O=MyCompany/OU=1177687786/CN=bigip/emailAddress=root@bigip
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: /C=--/ST=WA/L=Seattle/O=MyCompany/OU=1177687786/CN=bigip/emailAddress=root@bigip
Client-SSL-Cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
Client-SSL-Warning: Peer certificate not verified
Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Set-Cookie: BIGIPAuthCookie=**REMOVED**; path=/; Secure;
SOAPServer: EasySoap++/0.6        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/Pool">        s:type="A:Array"
        A:arrayType="y:string[0]">
$VAR1 = '        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/Pool">        s:type="A:Array"
        A:arrayType="y:string[0]">
';
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()
SOAP:arser::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Serializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Lite::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Lite::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Deserializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP:arser::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Transport::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Serializer::DESTROY: ()
SOAP::Data::DESTROY: ()

I sent a message asking about permissions to our network people. The response I received is as follows:

 

 

The ... account does have "operator" permissions to the ... partition. This should allow you to view the pools and pool members as well as bring the members up and down.

 

 

USER myusername

 

| ROLE operator PARTITION ...

You mentioned the word "partition". If your BIG-IP is configued using admin partitions and your objects are located in another partition than "Common", you will need to add a call in your code to Management :: Partition :: set_active_partition() for your user given user name. The client will default to the "Common" partition unless you explicitly specify that you want access to another partition.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iControl/Management__Partition__set_active_partition.html

 

Click here

 

 

 

-Joe

How do I set the active partition in Perl through the SOAP::Lite module interface?

 

 

Thanks,

Nevermind. I found it here:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=1&postid=19464&view=topic