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Getting Started With Ruby and iControl

Here on DevCentral we’ve released libraries for a number of the big languages from Java and Perl to Powershell. Up until now there has not been much love for Ruby. Well, that’s all about to ...
Published Jan 07, 2011
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May 29, 2012
Tom, are you using admin partitions on your LTM to section off configuration objects? If so, iControl defaults to the "/Common" partition. You'll need to change the "active" partition in your client code before making the get_list() call. I went over this a bit in this article:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/icontrol-101-08-partitions

 

 

-Joe

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