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Hannes_Rapp
Feb 05, 2016Nimbostratus
Why would you want to reduce the connection limit, instead of just marking the pool member unavailable during a maintenance window or release? To me, it does not make sense, but maybe there are some valid reasons. I want to know!
As an automated/delegated activation solution, I would not consider anything besides an iControlREST implementation. You might want to develop a basic HTML front-end (somewhere outside BigIP) which triggers an iControlREST API call, based on user input. The front-end server can authenticate itself to BigIP with a client-certificate, you do not have to share BigIP auth credentials with externals.
iControlREST Ref: https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControlREST.HomePage.ashx
PDF Docu (11.5): https://devcentral.f5.com/d/icontrol-rest-user-guide-version-1150