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iControl Overview

iControl is the first open API that enables applications to work in concert with the underlying network based on true software integration.

Utilizing SOAP/XML to ensure open communications between dissimilar systems, iControl helps F5 customers, leading independent software vendors ( ISVs ), and Solution Providers realize new levels of automation and configuration management efficiency. Whether monitoring network-level traffic statistics, automating network configuration and management, or facilitating next generation service-oriented architectures, iControl gives organizations the power and flexibility to ensure that applications and the network work together for increased reliability, security, and performance. Further, iControl has proven itself as a valuable technology that can help reduce the cost of managing complex environments.

You can investigate the power of iControl further by browsing through the iControl Wiki, which is effectively a live copy of the SDK, and is a great online resource for scoping projects and researching.


  
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Microsoft Hops Into Infrastructure 2.0
Microsoft Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for Systems Center (DIT-SC) is hopping forward, literally, into the network. With or without established standards, this dog is going to hunt. It takes time to develop standards, something we often overlook. When the foundational standards upon which the Internet were being developed there were (almost) no users, no broadband, and no real urgency to get something available. The adoption of disruptive, highly volatile technologies such as virtualization...
3/3/2010 3:58:09 AM | Read More...
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Laptop Load Balancing For The Developer With BIG-IP LTM VE
Introduction So, you've probably read all about the BIG-IP LTM VE.  You've gone through the download process and got the thing configured and running in VMWare.  You've even gone through the initial configuration steps to get the management port configured and got the thing licensed up.  Now what?  Well, we've got a bunch of examples of firing up separate VM instances of host operating systems so that you can test creating pools of servers with those other VM instances. ...
2/24/2010 3:20:27 PM | Read More...
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Experimenting with pyControl on LTM VE

Since the BIG-IP LTM VE is currently a trial version, you won’t be doing any production implementations.  That’s good in this case, because we’re going step outside the box a little and install pyControl on your shiny new toy.  As with any "hacked' solutions in the BIG-IP shell, it's best to deploy these in development and test scenarios, not production.

2/16/2010 2:55:00 AM | Read More...
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iRule Editor - Auto Connection

In the latest release of the iRule Editor v 0.10.1, I added several new features.  This tutorial will walk through the Auto Connection features I've added that allow you to supply command line arguments to have the iRule editor automatically connect to your specified BIG-IP. 

1/14/2010 8:46:00 AM | Read More...
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Getting Started with pyControl v2: Understanding the TypeFactory
In this video, Matt Cauthorn dives into the importance of the typefactory in pyControl v2.
12/14/2009 2:41:54 PM | Read More...
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