use icrontrol to generate dashboard

Hi Jucao,

 

 

You can check the iControl Codeshare for some examples to start with:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/icontrol.codeshare.ashx

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.PsIcontrolDashboard.ashx

 

 

For general iControl info you can start here:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.HomePage.ashx

 

 

To download the iControl.dll, check here. It’s under Release\iControl.dll, part of the icontrol assembly downloads here:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/2/aft/1172123/showtab/groupforums/Default.aspx

 

 

To download the iControl SDK, check here:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/icontrol.F5Downloads.ashx

 

 

Aaron

Hi Jucao, iControl is a set of web services exposed on the F5 devices. Think of it as a programmatic interface to the admin GUI. In fact, it uses the same management interface and authorization as the GUI.

 

 

The API exists on the device so there is nothing you need to do to enable it. What you do need to do is to pick a client toolkit you would like to use. The client toolkit will interface with your client program (C, VB, Java, Python, Perl, PowerShell, etc) and allow you to access the methods without worrying about the format of the wire-level content of the API.

 

 

 

I'd recommend looking at the iControl wiki homepage at

 

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.HomePage.ashx

 

 

 

for background info as well as some quickstart guides or the various languages. You can find the client packages in the DevCentral Labs projects

 

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/Download/Labs/tabid/1082206/Default.aspx

 

 

 

Hope this helps getting you going.

 

 

 

-Joe

 

Looks like Hoolio beat me to the reply!

haha,no worry

 

both of your ideas are helpful to me

 

thanks very much

 

I am reading these now

hello,Joe

 

I have some questions here

 

1:What you do need to do is to pick a client toolkit you would like to use. The client toolkit will interface with your client program :

 

what do u mean when u say toolkit?

 

2:

 

To download the iControl.dll

 

To download the iControl SDK

 

why should I download this dll and SDK?

 

what are the function of them?

The iControl SDK is used to provide the connectiovoty to iControl. Includes docs and a few bits & pieces to make your life easier. In theory you could just access using the WDSL's as well if you like (And they're in the SDK as well).

 

 

The SDK is available in the F5 Downloads section (Link from the iControl Wiki)...

 

 

Currently it's at -> https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.F5Downloads.ashx

 

 

Choose your version and away you go. I usually use the latest iControl version for all my units as they tend to run different versions. Later SDK's can talk to earlier BigIP versions, but earlier SDK's will be missing features from later units.

 

 

Toolkit in this context is going to mean something like SOAP::Lite for perl on Unix. or .net for C on windows or whichever python SOAP API you like.

 

 

H

Read through my "How iControl Works" article for an overview on the various pieces of iControl and how it will fit with your application:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=106

 

 

-Joe

 

thanks