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OTS02
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Jan 28, 2009

un initialize

Is there a way to terminate an http session with an f5 box with icontrol?

 

 

I know that to establish a connection use:

 

iControl.initialize("unit", "admin", password)

 

 

But what is the command to tear down the connection, short of ending the program?

 

 

The reason I ask, is because I want to write a program for web developers to enable/disable pool members. I want the program to determine which f5 unit is active, and only act on the active unit. If I have the program log into unit 1, determine that unit 1, then initiate a connection to unit 2, how do I know that the following calls will not go to unit 1?
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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Jan 28, 2009
    There are no persistent connections with iControl. Each method call causes a new HTTP Post command to be sent to the BIG-IP. The initialize method in the iControl assembly, sets the target and credentials and then verifies that they work. If you make a subsequent initialize call passing in another device, the internal values (in the iControl.Interfaces class) for the hostname and credentials will be overwritten and used on subsequent calls.

     

     

    Make sense?

     

     

    -Joe