Microsoft Powershell with iControl

- this content is outside my wheelhouse BUT...did you make sure to check Joel's Codeshare? https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/powershell-module-for-the-f5-ltm-rest-api

The note at the top of this article says this particular component isn't supported anymore...so maybe you'll have better luck reviewing Joel's contribution.

IF, on the other hand, that doesn't apply to you then you might try PM'ng Joel directly.

You can do that under Profile Icon > Messages

Hope that helps.

Lief

For any others looking to extend the session for a powershell connection to LTM, after installing the module find the new-f5session file under "C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\F5-LTM\1.4.295\Public" you can edit line 20 to a greater value.

-    [ValidateRange(300,36000)][int]$TokenLifespan=1200

If a session does end, you can exit powershell, restart it and run new-f5session again.

Thanks Leif. Here's my question for just getting started.

Thought I would finally try this out, I have an irule to add to all VIPs using HTTPs. Seemed that would be easy and quick. I loaded the module, all went well and pretty slick. I needed to use -passthrough with the session to be able to run:

Get-VirtualServer | Where-Object {($_.Destination -like "*443*")} | Select-Object Name

with passthrough in my new-f5session command I was good.

Then a few minutes later I got this error and do not know how to get around it.

Invoke-F5RestMethod : "401 F5 Authorization Required: X-F5-Auth-Token does not exist.

I tried new-f5session, logged in again, still got the error. Shut down powershell and tried it all again, still got th error.

How do I set my session to last longer?

What are the steps required to set a new token?

Within powershell what is the syntax for add-iruletovirtualserver? I have an irule that I want to apply to virtual servers, is this run with the get-virtualserver context?

get-virtualserver $vsname | add-iruletovirtualserver $irulename?

I keep getting False returned.

@Joel Newton(MVP) can you help?

@The-messenger

The original author of this article is no longer with F5 and while I wouldn't be surprised if there is an F5'er who might engage to dig deeper with you - the chances of finding him or her or any other skilled individual goes up really fast by starting a question.

Feel free to link this article in your question, @mention folks (such as Gianluca, @Patrik Jonsson (MVP), etc here who have been engaged) to 'guide' them to your conversation, and give as much detail as you feel comfortable giving; detail stimulates conversation.

If you do that and don't get any reasonable response..send me the URL (either @mention me or send me a Direct Message) and I will kick it around our ENG groups to see if there is .

Is there a location to discuss and understand better the use of the module? I installed it ran a couple commands, wow! really cool, came back a few minutes later and the X-F5-Auth-Token doesn't exist. Creating a new session didn't help. Not what I expected but surely I'm missing something I need to do, to make this useful.

Can you point me to a place to discuss, ask, get more information?

Hello,

after latest updates from MS the initialize function does not work anymore without TLS. Simpy add

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

before Initialize-F5.iControl -Hostname bigip_address -Credentials (Get-Credential)

Regards.

G.