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Sample Applications¶

Adding or deleting a pool member - Using iControl proxy to add or delete a pool member
ARX File Change - This example shows how to retrieve the set of ARX file changes that occurred in a managed volume between two snapshots.
ARX Namespace Info - This example shows how to retrieve all namespaces and their configuration on an ARX.
ARX Volume Info -
Using SOAPUI to set violation flags - set_violation_flags usin soapui
ASM Policy Report -
BIG-IP Configuration Visualizer - A Script to create images for Virtual Server Configuration.
BIG-IP Blogging - A CGI Script to return an RSS feed of the BIG-IP’s status.
Bulk Nat Creation - This iControl script will bulk create NATs based on the contents of an input file.
Discover Device (C# code sample) - This C# client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to discover a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Delete Device (C# code sample) - This C# client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to delete a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Querying the status of a discovery task - Querying the status of a discovery task
C# Making Async Calls using the iControlAssembly - A C# application which asynchronously makes iControl calls via the iControlAssembly library
CodeShare - List of iControl CodeShare contributions
Concurrent Call - A small example of how to use threads with pycontrol v2. Of particular note is the use of the clone() method. which allows you to parse a WSDL one time. then use a lightweight clone to point…
ConfigSync Status - This perl application mimics the “bigpipe config sync show” command and displays the status and last times that configuration sync occurred.
Create CNAME Resource Record in Zone Runner - Create a CNAME Record in Zone Runner
Create Maintenance Page iRule - A script to generate a maintenance page iRule. upload it to the BIG-IP. and optionally apply it to a virtual
Retrieve platform version using iControl Proxy (C# code sample) - C# client code sample to disable virtual servers using iControl Proxy.
C# Polling Default Pool Connections - A C# application that displays the current connections for all of the default pools.
Deleting BIG-IP devices - A sample script to delete BIG-IP devices from an Enterprise Manager.
Enable/Disable pool member - This Perl script will enable or disable all instances of a node address and port across all pools.
Discovering BIG-IP devices - Using iControl proxy to discover devices
EM discover devices - Discover Devices API
Down A Member If A Monitor Failed - This script will set a pool members state to FORCED DOWN if it determines that a health monitor failed (MONITOR_STATUS_DOWN). The reasoning behind this is that it is sometimes necessary to p…
Duplicate VMware instance and add it to a pool - The purpose of this windows binary is to duplicate an existing VMware insta…
delete_devices -
Enabling or disabling a pool member - Using iControl proxy to enable or disable a pool member
Event Notification Client - This is a debugging application to help test an endpoint that implements the Management::EventNotification interface.
Event Notification Listener - This perl script is a standalone http daemon that will listen and log Management::EventNotification messages to disk.
Event Subscription Client - This application illustrates how to use the Management::EventSubscription interface to create and manage subscriptions for system event notifications.
External Data Group / Class Manipulation - Windows/C# Application to update remotely external classes (you may have to…
f5poolmgr - f5poolmgr is a web application (using the Perl CGI::Application framework) …
get_task_status - Uses the get_task_status API to determine the current status of a device discovery task.
PHP - This iControl example will build a PHP script that will query an LTM for all of the pools and members along with their availability status and connection counts.
Icinga Pool and Vserver Check in Python -
iControl Examples from Agility Conference 2011 in PHP - iControl PHP web pages
iControl examples in PHP5 - simple web page widgets to manipulation of LTM and GTM objects
Initialize Rule - This iControl sample will force the re-initialization of an iRule.
InstallSoftwareImage - A script to automate BIG-IP software image installation
Retrieve platform version using iControl Proxy (Java code sample) - Java client code sample uses the iControl Proxy to disable the virtual servers for each device managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Delete Device (Java code sample) - This Java client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to delete a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Discover Device (Java code sample) - This Java client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to discover a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Java Object Ltm Pool - This Java class will wrap the iControl LTM Pool interface to make it look like an object.
Java Object Ltm Pool Member - This Java class will wrap the iControl LTM PoolMember interface to make it look like an object.
Java Object Ltm Rule - This Java class will wrap the iControl LTM Rule interface to make it look like an object.
Java Object Networking Selfip - This Java class will wrap the iControl Networking::SelfIP interface to make it look like an object.
Java Object Statistic Value - This Java class is a helper class for the Java Objects CodeShare entries.
Java Object System Service - This Java class will wrap the iControl System Services interface to make it look like an object.
Java Pool Member Control - This Java application allows for the graceful shutdown of a pool member. It also allows you to query pools. pool members. pool member status. and enable and disable the po…
Java System Info - This Java application illustrates how to query system information from a BIG-IP with Java.
Java Trust Provider - This example java class allows access to the JSSE Trust Layer allowing access to self-signed server certificates for HTTPS based SOAP connections.
ldap Reporter - This application is a small server dedicated app that runs on the pool member and reports pool member load to the database.
Log X Forwarded For Http Header In Iis Dll - Log the custom X-Forwarded-For HTTP header value in IIS with this DLL
LTM Stats via pycontrol version 2 - prints out status and statistics for LTM virtual servers and pools.
NodeInitiator - A script to at members to a pool on a BIG-IP
Node/Pool/VIP Creation Script (from csv input) - A script to create a VIP from the ground up.
pc2 Createpartition - A small example of how to use pycontrol v2 to create a parition. Change the partition name and description to suit your needs.
Retrieve platform version using iControl Proxy (Perl code sample) - Perl client code sample uses iControl Proxy to get plaform version for each device managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Delete Device (Perl code sample) - This Perl client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to delete a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Discover Device (Perl code sample) - This Perl client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to discover a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Perl Add iRule To All Virtuals - This iControl application illustrates how to mass-deploy an iRule to all of the virtual servers on the system.
Perl Add Pool Member - This sample perl application will illustrate how to add a member to a pool.
Perl Address Class - This perl sample illustrates how to create and manage an address data group (class).
Perl ARX Chassis - This example shows how to retrieve chassis configuration, status and statistics on an ARX.
Perl ARX Export - This example shows how to retrieve all exports and their configuration on an ARX.
Perl ARX FileServer - This example shows how to retrieve all file servers and their configurations, statuses and statistics on an ARX.
Perl ARX ManualMigrateRule - This example shows how to use manual migration rule to migrate files on an ARX.
Perl ARX Namespace - This example shows how to retrieve all namespaces and their configuration on an ARX.
Perl ARX Network - This example shows how to retrieve networks and their configurations, statuses and statistics on an ARX.
Perl ARX Schedule - This example shows how to monitor and manage all schedules on an ARX.
Perl ARX Virtual Service - This example shows how to retrieve all virtual services and their configurations, statuses and statistics on an ARX.
Perl ARX Volume - This example shows how to retrieve all volumes and their configurations, statuses and statistics on an ARX.
Perl Config Sync - This sample illustrates how to use the ConfigSync interfaces in perl.
Perl Create Pool - This perl sample will illustrate how to query a list of pools and pool members or create a new pool with a specified list of members.
Perl Establish Device Trust, Create Sync-Failover device-group, and add members - This perl reference application will establish a traditionl HA pair on V11 software.
Perl example of deploying an iApp application service - Create an iApp service using iControl and perl
Perl GTM Pool - Sample perl script to get/set the state of a GTM Pool.
Perl Gtm Pool Member - A sample perl application to control a GTM Pool Member.
Perl iControl iApp Deployment - Perl iControl iApp Deployment for v11.2 and v11.4
Perl Local Lb Rule - This Perl script illustrates how to use the methods in the LocalLB Rule interface for managing iRules.
Perl Local Traffic Map - This application will replicate the network map functionality found in the BIG-IP management GUI with a perl console application.
Perl Ltm Config To Xml - A perl sample will use iControl to query the LTM Virtual Server configuration and store it in an XML format.
Perl PoolMember Monitor - This sample illustrates how to get and set a monitor association with a pool member.
Perl Query String Class - This perl example illustrates how to query string classes (data groups).
Perl Script to check GTM Wideip and its associated Pool status -
Perl Script to gather iQuery Statistics - PERL
Perl Set Monitor Property - This perl sample will allow you to modify the properties of a Monitor template.
Perl SOAP::Lite TypeCast package - Typecast library code for iControl when used with the Perl SOAP::Lite module. This will tell SOAP::Lite how to cast enumeration values returned from iControl method calls.
Perl Ssh Access - A perl sample illustrating how to configure ssh access to a BIG-IP.
Perl Twitter Proxy - This example is a HTTP daemon that implements the EventNotification interface to receive iControl status messages. It will then proxy that message and post it to a specified Twitter account.
PerlVipFromPool - This perl sample will find which virtual servers are using a given pool.
Perl Virtual Server Conn Limit - This perl application will allow for getting and setting the connection limit on a virtual server.
Perl Virtual Server Rule - This perl sample will illustrate how to query the iRules associated with a virtual server as well as adding and removing iRules from that specified Virtual Server.
Perl Virtual Show - A perl sample illustrating how to get the results from the “bigpipe virtual show” command.
PHP iControl Object State - PHP WAMP Server and iControl page
Ping External Class - This example shows how to force a reload of an external data group.
PIPer - PHP iControl Portal - PIPer iControl portal
Perl Certificate Info - This perl application will display the information about the certificates on the BIG-IP system.
Pool Member Update By A Record - This is a script will do an A record lookup for a hostname and populate the specified pool with all available A records
Perl Pool Monitor Instances - This example will query the Monitor Instances associated with the members of a given pool name. It will then group the results by member.
Pools In Rules - There currently isn’t a way to directly access which pools are referenced in iRules and which iRules reference pools. This sample solves that by pulling down all pools and rules and searches…
Pool Stats For 4x And 9x - This sample application will query both v4.x and v9.x BIG-IP devices for pool statistics. It makes use of the system version information to determine which platform it is and then makes appr…
Pool Toggle - The script takes command line arguments to log into a version 9 BigIP and either show all the pools and members. or enable|disable all of a specified pool’s members.
PowerShell App Automation - This is a Powershell iControl Sample illustrating how to automate the process of application pools and monitors for a given Application name and version.
PowerShell GTM Pool Member - This example illustrates how to query and set the state of GTM Pool Members.
PowerShell iApp Template Control - The following PowerShell script illustrates how to support the BIG-IP .tmpl file format for Application Templates.
PowerShell Management Folder - This example illustrates how to use the Folder methods to build a console shell allowing you to navigate and manage system Folders on BIG-IP v11 and above.
PowerShell Management Provision - This is a Powershell iControl Sample illustrating how to use the module resource provisioning methods to manage the partitioning of memory. disk. and cpu across the modules licensed to run o…
Powershell Menu Driven Queries - A menu-based PowerShell application to query information about your BIG-IP
PowerShell Pool Member Availability - This PowerShell script will query the status of the pool members for a specified poolname.
PowerShell PoolMember Ratio And Priority - This sample PowerShell script illustrates how to use the methods in the LocalLB::Pool interface to get and set the Ratio and Priority for a Pool Member.
PowerShell RAM Cache - This PowerShell example illustrates how to query for entries in the RAM Cache.
PowerShell Setup Snapin - This PowerShell script will register the iControl Snapin on 32 and 64 bit platforms.
PowerShell Software Status - This example illustrates how to use the get_all_software_status method in the System SoftwareManagement interface.
PowerShell System Audit - This is a PowerShell iControl Sample illustrating the return values for some system auditing information
Ps ARX Monitor - These examples show how to use PowerShell to monitor an ARX through the iControl interfaces.
Ps BIG-IP Interactive Shell - This sample application illustrates how to build an interactive shell to manage your BIG-IP.
Ps Bigip List Configuration - This PowerShell application will query the contents of a file in the /config directory on a BIG-IP. save the contents locally. and then display them to the console.
Ps Config Archiving - This PowerShell application performs archiving and restoring of your BIG-IP configuration.
Ps Get Bigip Routes - This Powershell application prints out the static TMM and Management routing table from the BIG-IP.
Ps Global Ssl Statistics - This application will explore the system level ssl statistics available in the System.Statistics interface.
Ps Global Statistics - This PowerShell script will query the global system statistics.
Ps Gtm Data Center - This sample will illustrate how to use the iControl API to manage Global Traffic Manager Data Centers.
Ps Icontrol Concurrency - This sample application will illustrate how to use the locking mechanisms in iControl to allow you to create a multi-threaded iControl application.
Ps Icontrol Dashboard - This Powershell application will use iControl and the Google Chart API to build a monitoring dashboard.
Ps Irule Dashboard - This Powershell application will use iControl and the Google Chart API to build a dashboard to monitor the usage of your iRules.
Ps Local Traffic Map - This application will replicate the network map functionality found in the BIG-IP management GUI with a PowerShell console implementation.
Ps Local Traffic Summary - This application will replicate the network status functionality found in the BIG-IP management GUI with a PowerShell console implementation.
Ps Object Meta Data - PowerShell library to create and access generic metadata for objects on your BIG-IP systems.
Ps Partition Access - This application illustrates how to get and set the users management partitions.
ps Pool Lookup - This PowerShell application will do a reverse lookup for pools given a pool member definition.
Ps Pool Member Control - This application allows for the graceful shutdown of a pool member. It also allows you to query pools. pool members. pool member status. and enable and disable the pool members.
Ps Provision VE For Local Dev - This PowerShell script will illustrate how to deploy an application.
Ps Rate Based Statistics - This sample application will illustrate how to take raw statistic counters and turn them into rates.
Ps Rate Class - This PowerShell example will illustrate how to create and manage rate classes with the iControl API.
Ps Self Ip Port Lockdown - This applications illustrates how to manage Self IP and Default Port Lockdown Access Lists.
Ps Server Control - This PowerShell application will get and set the infamous three-way-toggle state (enabled. disabled. offline) for server objects.
Ps System Boot Location - This sample will illustrate the usage of the system boot location iControl methods.
Ps System Gtm Stats - This PowerShell example will illustrate how to query the global GTM statistics.
Ps System Http Stats - This PowerShell application will illustrate how to pull out the rolled up Http Statistics taking from all of the Http Profiles.
Ps System Ip Stats - This PowerShell application will query the system wide IP based statistics and display them in columnar format.
Ps System Pva Stats - This example will illustrate how to examine the system level PVA statistics.
Ps TMM Statistics - this application will look into the insides of the TMOS processes on the system and dump out the available statistics exposed in the System.Statistics.get_tmm_statistics() method.
Ps Twitter Api - Here’s a set of PowerShell functions implementing the Twitter APIs.
Ps Virtual Server Lookup - This powershell script will allow you to do a wildcard reverse lookup for Virtual Servers.
Transfer Zones to GTM - Transfer Zones to GTM
pyControl Add VS to Server on GTM - pyControl Add VS to Server on GTM
pyControl adding BIG-IP to DC for GTM - This script adds a bigip to a DC on GTM. This script can be used for any se…
pyControl add String - Add bulk strings to a datagroup.
pyControl Create Datacenter Script - This script creates a DC with pyControl..
pyControl Create GTM Region - #This script is for adding a GTM Topology Region for US States
pyControl Create Wide-IP on GTM - This script is for adding Wide_IPs
pyControl Creates a pool and adds VS for GTM - This script creates a pool on GTM
pyControl Creating a DC sample script 1 - This pyControl script creates a Datacenter. It checks to makesure the ip ad…
pyControl Node Alert - Web based alerter. with blacklist
pyControl Register Self - This script will auto-register a virtual or physical machine into a pool on startup. or de-register on shutdown.
pycontrol - A list of PyControl v2 related resources here on DevCentral.
pyControl2 Disable Pool Member - This is an example of how to toggle pool members with pycontrol v2. Change the pool name and members list to reflect your
pyControl BIG-IP Routes - This script prints out the static TMM routing table from BIG-IP.
pyControl Get File From BIG-IP - This pyControl v2 script downloads the specified BIGIP file to the specified file location.
pyControl Get Pools - This pyControl v2 script prints out a list of BIG-IP Pools.
pyControl GTM Statistics - This script prints out status and statistics for GTM wideIPs and pools.
pyControl Gtm Stats - This pyControl v2 script prints out status and statistics for GTM wideIPs and pools.
pyControl iRule Timing - This pyControl v2 script generates load against virtual servers with specified iRule and calculates TMM impact.
pyControl iRule Timing And Comment Header Insert - This pyControl v2 script turns timing on/off. generates load against virtual servers with specified iRule and calculates TMM impact. and inserts test information as header in iRule.
pyControl Make Pool - This pyControl v2 script will create a BIG-IP Pool.
pyControl Make Virtual Server - This pyControl v2 script will create a BIG-IP Virtual Server.
pyControl v1 Show Pool Status - This script prints out quick status information on a pool.
pyControl System Quick Audit - This script gathers some basic but useful system information and prints it out.
pyControl Toggle Pool Member - A sample pyControl script that toggles a pool member. The main point is the usage of the pycontrol.Utils module. that has some convenience functions for disabling/enabling/status checking of…
pycontrol v2 - Class Management - pycontrol v2 Class Management
pyControl v2 - License BIGIP - License BIGIP
pyControl v2 RAMCache Manager - query/evict RAMCache entries
pyControl v2 Show Pool Status - This script will print out status info on all pools, or a specific pool.
Python bigsuds Performance Graphs - generates BIG-IP performance graphs.
Retrieve platform version using iControl Proxy (Python code sample) - Python client code sample uses the iControl Proxy to disable the virtual servers for each device managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Delete Device (Python code sample) - This Python client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to delete a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Discover Device (Python code sample) - This Python client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to discover a list of devices managed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Python Bigsuds BIG-IP Static Route Management - This script prints out the static TMM routing table from BIG-IP and allows optional route adds/delete from text files.
python bigsuds - Create or Modify an LTM Pool - This python bigsuds script will create or modify an LTM Pool
python bigsuds - Get GTM Pool Status - This python bigsuds script will get GTM Pool listing and status.
python bigsuds - Get LTM Pool Status - This python bigsuds script will get LTM Pool listing and status
python bigsuds - Get or Set GTM Pool TTL - This python bigsuds script will get or set GTM Pool TTLs.
Python Bigsuds - iRule deployment for HTTP Virtual Server - Massive iRule Deployment for HTTP VS
Python Bigsuds Library - A list of python bigsuds iControl related resources here on DevCentral.
Python Bigsuds - License BIG-IP - License a BIG-IP
Python Bigsuds - Massive iRule removal - bigsuds script for massive iRule removal
Query All Rules - This iControl application will query all the iRules configured on a BIG-IP and display them to the output.
Ruby Big IP Profile Switcher Class - The BIGIPProfileSwitcher class will connect to two BIG-IPs and allow for profiles and HTTP Class profiles for be added and removed from a virtual server. In our testing. we use this class to…
Ruby Big IP Route Changer Class - The BIGIPRouteChanger class will connect to two BIG-IPs and allows for changing routes on those two BIG-IPs. In our testing efforts. we change the network configurations between central and …
Ruby NAT Maker - The purpose of the NAT Maker tool is to add or delete a list of NATs.
Ruby VIP Maker - This is a utility created for the purpose of producing large numbers of virtual servers. including pools. This was created to make our testing efforts easier.
Ruby Web Accelerator Policy Switcher Class - The WAPolicySwitcher class will connect to two BIG-IPs and allow for Web Accelerator application policies to be added and removed from a Web Accelerator. In our testing. we use this class to…
Ruby Wide IP Maker - This is a utility created for the purpose of producing large numbers of WideIPs. including pools. This was created to make our testing efforts easier.
Script analysis of BIG-IP F5 Networks -
pyControl v2 Send a File - Upload a file to an LTM with pycontrol
Set Virtual Default Pool - This sample applications allows for modification of a Virtual Servers default pool
Set Wideip Pool Member Ratio - This example sets the ratio of a Wideip Pool Member.
SSL2048bit Key TPS Reporting Tool - This script will report on the impact of 2048bit keys on your BIG-IP infrastructure.
SSL Certificate Report - A script to report SSL certificates managed by a BIG-IP
SSLKeyAndCSRCreator - A script to generate private keys and CSRs
Suds Python Example - This script shows basic SUDS usage with iControl.
System Usage Information - This code sample illustrates the usage of the new System::get_cpu_usage_information() and System::get_disk_usage_information() methods to retrieve the current usage information of the CPUs a…
Get Task Status (C# code sample) - This C# client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to get the status for a specific task executed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Get Task Status (Java code sample) - This Java client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to get the status for a specific task executed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Get Task Status (Perl code sample) - This Perl client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to get the status for a specific task executed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Get Task Status (Python code sample) - This Python client code sample uses Enterprise Manager’s device inventory to get the status for a specific task executed by the referenced Enterprise Manager.
Toggle Node Address - The script will toggle the state of a node. If no node address is specified. the script will display a list of nodes available. For a valid node address. the script will query the node state…
Toggle Pool Member - The script will toggle the state of a pool member. If no pool and member is specified. a list of it’s members and their states are displayed. For a valid pool member. the script will query t…
Up/Down Nodes: Visual C# - Enabale and disable nodes using Visual C#.
Upload Local Certificates and Keys - Sample Perl iControl SOAP script that uploads local certificates and keys, stored in PEM format, to a BIG-IP
Virtual Address ARP Switcher - A script to move virtual addresses between units using ARP
Virtual Server Pool Member Status And Control - This Windows app will allow you to view Virtual Server pools (or system wide pools) and control their members.
VM Ware Automation - This application helps people using VMware replication and instance in order to respond to increases in traffic
walk F5 Stats - This application runs by default every 20 seconds to poll a cluster of BIGIP devices for statistics. gathered via both iControl and SNMP.