Urgent -- Help with import_from_archive_stream() key/cert management API call

What are you passing in for the archive_stream parameter? It should be a base64 encoded version of the local .tgz file (not on the BIG-IP). The api call uploads the content, stores it in a temporary file (/var/run/tempKMArchive.tgz) and then calls the import_from_archive_file() method with the file path as a parameter.

 

 

You said you already uploaded the .tgz to the BIG-IP. If that's the case, then you'll likely want to use the import_from_archive_file() method where instead of passing in a blob with the .tgz base64 encoded content, you'll pass in the path on the BIG-IP where the .tgz file is located.

 

 

I believe the .Net bindings take care of the base64 encoding for you, but if you are using Perl, then you would do something like this

 

 

$tgz_content = &LoadContentFromFile("c:\temp\foo.tgz") (where LoadContentFromFile loads the content from the file - B-) ).\

 

$tgz_encoded = SOAP::Data->type(base64 => $tgz_content);

 

$soapresponse = $certkey->import_from_archive_stream(

 

SOAP::Data->name (mode => MANAGEMENT_MODE_DEFAULT ),

 

SOAP::Data->name (archive_stream => [$tgz_encoded] ),

 

SOAP::Data->name (keys => ["www.example.com.key"] ),

 

SOAP::Data->name (certs => ["www.example.com.crt"]),

 

);

 

 

or you could just use the import_from_archive_file method if you already have the .tgz in /var/tmp/myarchive.tgz on the BIG-IP.

 

 

$soapresponse = $certkey->import_from_archive_file(

 

SOAP::Data->name (mode => MANAGEMENT_MODE_DEFAULT ),

 

SOAP::Data->name (archive_location => ["/var/tmp"] ),

 

SOAP::Data->name (archive_name => ["myarchive.tgz"] ),

 

SOAP::Data->name (keys => ["www.example.com.key"] ),

 

SOAP::Data->name (certs => ["www.example.com.crt"]),

 

);

 

 

 

Hope this helps...