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posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:21 AM
With another cool example of how iControl can help streamline the way you monitor the BIG-IP, F5 Senior Architect Joe Pruitt shows how you can turn live network events and status into standard RSS feeds that can be consumed and viewed via an RSS reader or Web portal. (Special “inspiration credit” goes to Robert Scoble)

(Note: the code for this example is available HERE in the F5 DevCentral CodeShare. Free DevCentral registration and login required.)

 

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00:00  :  Intro
00:17  :  You’ve been doing some interesting things with iControl. Could you give us the details?
01:49  :  Is this like creating an SNMP trap with RSS instead?
02:26  :  You can set the polling interval at whichever frequency you prefer?
02:58  :  Let’s take a look at the code.
04:08  :  That looks like the standard XML you get with any RSS feed, right?
04:40  :  It looks like the typical RSS feed with a standard URL…
05:11  :  The feeds you get can change based upon how you configure it?
06:47  :  Looks like you’re disabling a node in the standard BIG-IP v9 GUI…
07:17  :  So, this can actually highlight dependencies between pools, virtual servers, and nodes?
08:30  :  It doesn’t actually have to be an RSS reader then. It could be deployed with a web portal that can consume RSS and munge it with other stuff and style it however you want?
09:10  :  This could actually plug into any enterprise portal to build your own configurable IT dashboard…
09:24  :  Is this code available anywhere?
10:24  :  … and you can subscribe to virtually anything on the BIG-IP? Stats… etc.?

 


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