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v11.1–Add Signatures or Checksums to iRules via an iApp

iApps, introduced in v11, have a primary function in controlling the object creation and management for an application delivered by BIG-IP. As discussed previously, however, anything that can be acco...
Published Dec 19, 2011
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Mar 13, 2012
Important safety tip: You can't add a checksum to an iRule that you created in the same iApp -- it will give you an error. What you can do is create shell script, and call that from within your iApp. It would be a simple script that sleeps for 2 or 3 seconds, then runs the 'tmsh generate ...' command. Its not pretty, but it works for me.