I've followed the quickstart guide for Windows, and I have ActiveState Perl installed. I'm getting errors on the installation of the Crypt-SSLeay ppm. It says it can't be found in the repository. Where can I get this? Alternatively, I'd rea...
1. Are there plans for adding support for SOAP 1.2 in iControl? 2. I see that iControl currently supports the SOAP messaging style of RPC/encoded. Are there plans for moving iControl over to the new document/literal style? Thanks Karthic.
I decided to use SOAP. I installed iControl SDK on my computer. I compiled successfully SOAP Java Sample code - the codes are at iControl-4.5\iControl-4.5\sdk\support\SOAP\java When I execute java code, ...
My iControl application is given the SNMP interface index which is a numeric value identifying a specific BIG-IP port/interface. iControl, of course, identifies interfaces by a string ("1.1", "2.1"..etc). So, I need to map this numeric value to the s...
Hello, I observed a couple of times that changes made to BIG-IP configuration thru iControl vanished when I powered the BIG-IP off and back on. That is not expected, right? Or is there a "commit to non-volatile memory" type operation that we h...
I want to set a connection limit on the node and once that limit is reached I would like to maintain persistence(existing connections can go to the node but not any new connections). How can I do this? Thanks Rama.
The following is the sequence of general procedures to use when setting up the interaction between a CORBA client application and the iControl components. Create an object reference to the ITCMPortal::Portal interface on a specific target syst...
I hear that BIG-IP is FreeBSD series. It contains ORBacus and has 512MB flash memory. Right? In it can I program with C++ or Java? If so, can I do CORBA programming on BIG-IP? I want to put CORBA programs into BIG-IP. My E-mail is mski...
Or for corba development, should I install ORB, C++or Java Compiler? I couldn't find any orb, Java in BIG-IP system at my company. What's wrong?
1. Does calling Node::set_state() with "disabled" prevent new connections from being directed to the node unless they belong to a persistence session already established on that node? 2. Does calling Node::set_availability() with "Down" preven...
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 dev...
I got the following exception in my .NET app on Windows 2003. It went away when I retried. I have a feeling it has to do with me trying to communicate too soon after powering up the BIG-IP. However, I clearly remember that ping to the device worked b...
My F5 server is on version 4.0.2. I know the latest version is 4.5.something. What version can Icontrol be used on???
Hello, I get the following exception (System.Net.WebException with stack trace) the first time my .Net app attempts to re-connect to the iControl web-service after a delay. I.e. app sends command to device for the very first time...this works ...
Can I install BigIP on my RedHat Linux and have it be my Load Balancer. Is BigIP Load Balancer a purely hardware solution, or is there a software solution too. If it does have a software solution, what are all the platforms it support?
If anyone is interested, I have uploaded a short python sample into the codeshare section. So far my testing shows a big improvement in speed over the perl implementation, but that could be my configuration. Lenny Brown lenny.brown@m...
Hi, I need some help on node selection stuff. I have 2 servers behind my VIP and they need to be tested by a third party. I would like to set up in such a way when they use a particular url, they get the first server and then another ur...
Is there a way I could run commands remotely on a BIG-IP Load Balancer. I would want to run some Adminstration and Maintanence commands remotely on the BIG-IP load balancer. I would like to run the commands sitting on my Linux (or Windo...
Hi there, I'm trying to create a pool using the SOAP call 'create' in Java. The method signature from the iControl docs mentions the parameter lb_method which seems to want the LBMethod class. void create( in SessionCredentials cre...
Hello again. We currently have a TPS level of 500 on our BIGIPs v4.5.9 I'm writing an iControl script to get some statistical infomation from the Active Proxies. We'd like to know when were getting near our 500 TPS limit but am u...
I need to provide one of my scripts to a group that needs not have access to root user and password. I've tried using perl2exe put it doesn't seem to pick up the Crypt::SSLeay module. Anyone know how I can create an .exe from a .pl? The script I'm...
Newbie question, but Can PHP used with iControl as long as SOAP is installed? I prefer PHP to Perl as web interfaces are easier...
I am setting up a system to perform data mining and statistical analysis of in-band traffic through the F5 for particular ports and vIPs. We're planning to use the port mirroring capabilities within the F5 to clone the traffic to a data capture and ...
what is the name of the devcentral newsgroup??
Specifically, I somehow seem to need to change the calling signature of ITCMLocalLB.VirtualServer.set_any_ip_timeout and ITCMLocalLB.VirtualServer.set_any_ip_state. The 4.2 version seemed to need 'virtual_server[s]' as parameter names, ...
Has anyone used python with iControl? I personally prefer python to perl and dont have a handle on java yet. If anyone has, I would love to see a simple code snippet. Thanks. Lenny Brown
I have my 3dns set to manual resume when it detects a failure on a virtual server. When the VS comes back up I would like to enable it via a perl script. Unfortunately, the enable_virtual_server() in BaseServer will not enable it. I get no errors,...
Is there any way to find out whether an SSL accelerator is present?
Am I allowed to set the failover status to 'active' on a 'standby' box. Or can only the active unit mark itself standby?
The load balancer keeps logs on when nodes are marked down, etc. Is ths information accessible through the api?
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