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Michael_Lierman
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Oct 07, 2014

Best method to programmatically create iApps on F5 Big-IP appliance?

I have used pycontrol2 to write some helper scripts calling the iControl API to create pools and virtual servers. I have now been asked to investigate the possibility of creating iApps in a similar fashion. I've looked at the Big-IQ API documentation and the wiki on this site, but am not finding an answer (possibly I am looking in the wrong place). Does anyone have any pointers for me?

 

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  • Arnaud_Lemaire's avatar
    Arnaud_Lemaire
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    Oct 14, 2014

    Hello Michael, lets agree on a baseline : you don't want to create Iapps with Icontrol, you want to use Icontrol to deploy an Iapp template ?

    if yes you need to have a look to the Management.ApplicationServiceBinding.

    Here is an example for http iapp minimal information requested, REST is you friend here if you can :

    
   
   
      
         my_soapui_iapp
         /Common/f5.http
         
           
            
                  net__server_mode
                  lan
               
               
                  basic__port
                  80
               
               
                  pool__addr
                  10.100.42.13
               
                
                  net__client_mode
                  wan
               
               
                  client__http_compression
                  /Common/httpcompression
               
               
                  pool__http
                  /create_new
               
              
                  pool__pool_to_use
                  /create_new
               
              
                  pool__port
                  80
               
             
                  monitor__monitor
                  http
               
            
         
         
         
         
               
                  pool__hosts
                  
                     name
                  
                  
                     
                        www.toto.com
                     
                  
               
               
                  pool__members
                  
                     addr
                     connection_limit
                     port
                     port_secure
                     priority
                     ratio
                  
                  
                     
                        172.16.20.2
                        0
                        80
                        443
                        0
                        1