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karthic_n_12765
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratuswierd exception
I ran into the following exception when my .NET app on Windows 2003 tried to communicate with the BIG-IP device. The exception went away when I powered the BIG-IP off and turned it back on. May be it had to do with the way I switch off the BIG-IP device. I turn it off/on by flipping the switch on the back of BIG-IP. Is there a "soft" way to turn the BIG-IP off? Sorry...if that happens to be a naive question.
Thanks,
Karthic.
Exception Contents: System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1', but expected 'text/xml'.
The request failed with the error message:
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500 Internal Server Error
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@webmaster@bip107.big.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.26 Server at 60.1.1.1 Port 443
- I would highly recommend not powering down by hitting the power button. As with any operating system, you should shut it down properly. I don't believe there is a shutdown/restart command in the GUI ( I could be wrong ). The preferred way is to shell into the box with ssh and issue either the "shutdown" or "reboot" commands. This will allow the operating system to clean up the file system to avoid future corruption.
As for the error you are seeing, this looks like a configuration problem on the server. The fact that a reboot fixed it tells me that your device was in a bad state. If this persists, I'd recommend contacting F5 Technical Support directly to help diagnose the problem.
F5 Technical Support
Email: support@f5.com
Phone: 206-272-6888
Web: http://www.f5.com/support/
AskF5: http://tech.f5.com/
-Joe
