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iControl - automated, integrated, and flexible platforms

With the advent of cloud computing concepts, whether deployed “in the cloud” or “in the data center,” it has become even more important to tightly integrate the network infrastructure into the workflow processes that enable, disable, create, remove and migrate applications in a variety of containers both virtual and non-virtual. For F5’s application delivery platform, that integration is realized through the use of iControl.

iControl is a Web services-enabled open API providing granular control over the configuration and management of F5’s application delivery platform, BIG-IP®. iControl, like other SOA and Web services-enabled solutions, can be used by virtually any platform capable of integrating via SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). It can be used to build custom management and monitoring applications, to integrate with business process management (BPM) and other workflow applications, and can be integrated directly into applications to provide better control over the delivery of the application. It also integrates with virtual computing platform management tools like VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to help orchestrate the automated provisioning and de-provisioning of applications that can be used to build private and public cloud computing environments.

Using iControl you can control the way your application is delivered based on factors you define. You can modify the F5 BIG-IP device’s configuration in myriad ways, including:
• Adding servers dynamically to an application pool
• Stopping requests from going to an application server
• Changing the way requests are routed to servers
• Influencing the choice of servers based on current application or server load

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