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IT Traffic Management via Smartphone

Hi,     With the rollout of smartphones in the market, I simply repackage an application I wrote for Pocket PC 2002 several months ago to the smartphone. It's easy to say that the portability is extremely high, :lol:.     Below is a link to a...

CPU utilization and kernel memory utilization

Can I get my hands on those using iControl? This is for a BigIP running   4.2 at the moment. Hope to go to 4.5 RSN.     The information in ITCMLocalLB.Global.get_statistics   (GLOBAL_STATISTIC_MEM_POOL_TOTAL and GLOBAL_STATISTIC_MEM_POOL_USED )...

Help,about Load balance mode

I used Alteon before, and always load balance my webserver with Weighted Least Connection mode(WLC),because my webserver have diffrent capacities,this mode is fit for my web.     I use Least Connection(member) mode now at BigIP, and I specified va...

get_statistics ITCMLocalLB.Global.GlobalStatistic

Hi,     We'd like to use iControl to monitor (and later graph)   'GLOBAL_STATISTIC_CURRENT_CONNECTIONS'     I have the working LocalLBGlobal.pl script but cannot seem to get this   type and value returned correctly on its own from the get_st...

Threshold for minimum number of nodes in a pool

We would like to define a threshold for the minumum number of nodes in a pool when a pool is created. This threshold would be used by external monitoring to generate alerts when the number of active nodes falls below the threshold. Is there a way t...

security of the script

According to the sample source code of Ictrol,if want to disable a node,we have to write the password,like this:     [wzl@ra3 LocalLB]$ perl LocalLBNode.pl 10.0.16.245 443 admin 123456   Node 10.1.1.1:80 state set to: Disabled     Any better s...

Problem with get_all_virtual_server_statistics

I'm writing a little program taht retrieve statiscis information from the BigIp and stores it in a database in order to generate graphics of traffic and number of connections. I have no problem retrieving statistics of the pools and the node servers,...

Exception when calling node.get_list()

ello,     I just downloaded the iControl SDK and am playing with the included C samples. In the DistributionMonitor example app I am able to add my BIG-IP & 3DNS boxes to the app as well as monitor traffic. However, when attempting to modify a sel...

SMTP Load Balancing

Folks,     We are going to be using F5 to load-balance picture messaging (aka MMS) for wireless telcoms operators. Using F5 to load balance the HTTP/WAP traffic is straight forward enough, but SMTP is going to be tricky (with SMTP we will have to...

Using iControl with Health Monitors

Hi,     I have been using BIGIPs at our company for several of our customers for a couple of years.     I have written custom monitors using perl before testing appilication availability using simple curl commands. Whilst this has worked previo...

FirePass Questions

What are the power requirements for the FirePass 4000 chassis?? I scoured the included documentation to no avail.   :?

A little question

Would it be possible to assign the bandwidth to a pool using iControl?. Does anyone have an idea to do that?     Thanks:     Miguel

Rules

How do I create a rule to log specific URL requests with the session ID? Please show me an example.     Thanks,   Lisa

Find F5 machines in my network

Dose anybody knows how can I automatically search for F5 machines in my network from a Java program?. I tried to scan a F5 machine using nmap but it does not send any respond. I suppose F5 block or ignore that kind of traffic to improve the security....

[b]big Ip demo on f5[/b]

hi,   I am new to i control and am working on learning the stuff. I have made a vb.net application which gets the virtual server statistics. the problem is that at this moment we do not have the big Ip switch. will i be able to use the the Ip addres...

Problem accesing get_cpu_metrics() function

I'm trying to access get_cpu_metrics() function, but when I send the message to the Big-IP, it throws an exception: SOAP-ENV:Server : ITCMCommon::OperationFailed Exception caught on ITCMSystem::SystemInfo::get_cpu_metrics(). primary_error_code :...

BigIP with Siteminder and Radius?

We are currently using iPlanet boxes in our DMZ to reverse-proxy back to our Weblogic app servers via Weblogic's iPlanet plug-in. The iPlanets also house the Siteminder plug-in, authenticating users in the DMZ before they reach the Weblogic machines...

Creating proxy on unit 2 and saved config question

I'm at home and don't have access to all my stuff, so this is from   the top of my head, forgive me if it's a little hazy.     I was trying to create a proxy with ITCMLocalLB.Proxy.create. When I   was doing that on unit 2, I got an error indica...

General comments/observations regarding iControl

Background   I've spent a bit of time with the iControl sdk, and, as   witnessed in this developers portal, ran into some challenges   and issues. I thought it might be worthwhile to line out most   of my learnings over the last week or so in one...

Hw do I save configurations on a bigip?

I can see the stuff in ConfigSync. But how does that relate to: bigpipe base save and bigpipe save It would appear that ITCMSystem.ConfigSync.save_configurationwith the right flag will save either, but on the command line version the filename ...

How to get enabled state & availability (bulk)?

how do you get the state & availability for a list of IPPortDefinitions? the closest thing i can find are the get_node_address_states & get_node_address_availability functions. only problem being these functions don't accept an IPPortDefinition, bu...