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Jul 07, 2008

help on "ManagementLicenseAdministration" methods

 

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iControl.ManagementLicenseAdministrationEvaluationExpiration iContorlTime =

 

m_interfaces.ManagementLicenseAdministration.get_evaluation_license_expiration();

 

 

DateTime n_expTime = new DateTime(iContorlTime.evaluation_expire);

 

 

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Above code does not return the same value as what i see from the web based F5 interface.

 

"get_evaluation_license_expiration" method comes back with different time from

 

the actuall system.

 

 

n_expTime is keep on returning "2001-01-01 00:00"

 

 

I dont really mind, even if I get weird value from the

 

"get_evaluation_license_expiration" function, as long as the value I get is

 

same as the web based F5 interface.

 

 

Im 99% sure that, this is my fault, but could you plz try to guess

 

what Im doing wrong here.

 

 

Thank you
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  • Anthony_Gerace_'s avatar
    Anthony_Gerace_
    Historic F5 Account
    Jul 08, 2008
    Hi JCook,

    How are you handling the date conversion? The return values from get_evaluation_license_expiration method are longs and represent the number of seconds from the epoch. Here is a PERL example I used for testing.

    HTH,

    Anthony 

    $soap = SOAP::Lite 
       -> uri('urn:iControl:Management/LicenseAdministration') 
       -> proxy("https://$host/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi"); 
  
  
 $soap_response = $soap->get_evaluation_license_expiration; 
 if (! $soap_response->fault ) { 
   $evalExp = $soap_response->result; 
   $expEval = $evalExp->{evaluation_expire}; 
   $expDate = ParseDateString("epoch $expEval"); 
    
   print $expDate; 
 }
  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Jul 09, 2008
    Check out my tech tip on License Administration, it shows how to convert the epoch time to local time with PowerShell (which should translate to .Net nicely).

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=214

     

    Click here

     

     

     

    -Joe