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Joe_Sabek_47241
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Jan 14, 2009

Passing log statement to F5 device using iControl

Is there any way to tell an F5 device to log a certain string using iControl?   The specific iControl application provides a layer of abstraction for users that do not have an account on the F5 ...
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Joe_Sabek_47241
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Jan 22, 2009
Found a good solution.

 

You can do this by just adding parameters to the URI that gets sent to the GTM/LTM when making the SOAP call. Should work the same in .NET. This will log a message in ssl_access on the LTM/GTM

 

 

Jan 20 09:57:01 bigip001 logger: [ssl_req][20/Jan/2009:09:57:01 -0800] 192.168.2.34 TLSv1 RC4-MD5 "POST /iControl/iControlPortal.cgi?username=Joe?Action=Disable?Service=HR_Peoplesoft HTTP/1.0" 547

 

 

 

java.net.URL("https" + "://" + m_sUsername + ":" + m_sPassword + "@"

 

+ ltm1 + ":" + m_sPort + "/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi" + "?username=Sam?Action=Disable?Service=HR_Peoplesoft"));