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Introducing a RESTful interface for iControl

iControl isn’t just SOAP anymore… No, iControl isn’t getting lazy.   While taking it easy is an important part of life, I’m talking about the other kind of REST.   REST, or “REpresentation...
Published Jun 20, 2013
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Jul 25, 2018

Do folks typically send the REST API calls to the mgmt IP or to a floating self-IP setup to accept? If mgmt IP, how do you handle LTM pairs setup in HA since there isn't a virtual mgmt and each LTM device in the HA pair has their own mgmt IP. How do you ensure that the API calls are going to the active LTM instance?