System.Services.set_service not working with HTTPD

I haven't had time to test this, but for sure you're missing some kwargs in your set_service call - it expects two: services and service_action. Your call should look something like:

 
 pc.System.Services.set_service(services=[service], service_action=action)  
 

Also note that it's asynchronous: the call may return before the actual job is done.

-Matt

The kwargs would only improve readability in this case.

I was expecting something similar to ntpd in ltm log:

Mar  5 09:44:05 local/bp6800-121 notice logger: /usr/local/www/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi  ==> /usr/bin/bigstart reinit ntpd 
 

Probably access to httpd has been blocked in the iControl service because it's not a bright idea to *stop* apache which serves the iControl queries. But why block the reload (or reinit) action ?! Also there's no error, exception to let me know what is happening.

Sure enough. I see the exact same behavior. This works:

 
  s.set_service(services=[svc.SERVICE_NOKIASNMPD],service_action=action.SERVICE_ACTION_RESTART) 
 producing: 
 local/bigip1 notice logger: /usr/local/www/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi  ==> /usr/bin/bigstart restart nokiasnmpd 
 

This doesn't:

 
 s.set_service(services=[svc.SERVICE_HTTPD],service_action=action.SERVICE_ACTION_RESTART) 
 

So this looks like an iControl bug. I'll open a case.

-Matt

I'm looking through the sources and it seems that any request for START, STOP, REINIT, AND RESTART for SERVICE_HTTPD is silently ignored. This should probably thrown an exception to let you know that it didn't work. I can understand the reasoning for disabling it though as a restart or reinit will break the current iControl request and the call will return a transport error.

 

 

In case you are interested, here's the code block with the developers comment

 

 

  
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < services.size(); i++)  
  {  
    // we will silently ignore request to start/stop/reinit/restart httpd  
    // since that would be BAD !  
    if (services[ i ] == System::Services::SERVICE_HTTPD &&  
      (action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_START  ||  
       action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_STOP   ||  
       action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_REINIT ||  
       action == System::Services::SERVICE_ACTION_RESTART))  
    {  
      continue;  
    }  
    ...  
  }

 

 

I guess the "since that would be BAD !" is the fact that it will break the current iControl request B-).

 

 

-Joe

Thanks Joe. Still seems a bit odd we can't restart at the very least but at least we know.

 

-Matt