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sats_81745
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Nov 26, 2007

Starting with iControl

I am trying to write a iControl application that would dynamically re-configure the BIG-IP system based on changes to the GlassFish Application Server's cluster configuration. I had a couple of questi...
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Joe_Pruitt
Nov 26, 2007
iControl is a core component of BIG-IP so there is no need to install any additional software or license additional components on the BIG-IP to start accessing the APIs.

 

 

To get started, I'd recommend you download the 4.x SDK from the iControl downloads page. In the SDK there are some java samples to get you started.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fdevcentral.f5.com%2fdownloads%2fiControl%2fsdk%2fwindows%2fiControl-4.6.3.zip&tabid=73&mid=656

 

Click here

 

 

 

Keep in mind that the APIs have changed from 4.x to 9.x so anything you build that is directed to a 4.x platform will not work with 9.x.

 

 

If you are able to migrate to the currently supported product line of 9.x, you can make use of the iControl library for Java that I wrote that wrapps all our SOAP client proxy code (for Axis) into a single java library. We also have a Java Wrapper project in the Labs that does some "use case" wrapping of the API calls.

 

 

Good luck!

 

 

-Joe