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fapi - A humble command line tool to manage F5 BigIP loadbalancers
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+Just run
+
+ fapi -h
+
+or
+
+ f -h
+
+because it's shorter to type.
+
+=head1 ABOUT
+
This is a simple command line client to do basic stuff with the iControl F5 API
such as:
@@ -12,20 +26,11 @@ such as:
This is a private programming project programmed in my spare time. Therefore I
-didn't bother to put it on a public website and github.
-
-=head1 Synopsis
-
-Just run
-
- fapi -h
-
-or
+didn't bother to put it on a public website and github. Please open bug
+reports, feature requests and pull requests at
+L<https://github.com/rantanplan/fapi>.
- f -h
-because it's shorter to type.
-
-=head1 bigsuds
+=head1 BIGSUDS
=head2 Requirement of bigsuds
@@ -40,6 +45,8 @@ Unzip it and run
sudo python setyp.py install
+You may also install bigsuds from the contrib dir of the fapi source tree.
+
=head2 iControl reference
Through bigsuds you can do everything what iControl can do:
@@ -47,9 +54,7 @@ Through bigsuds you can do everything what iControl can do:
L<https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/icontrol.apireference.ashx>
-=head1 Quick start
-
-=head2 Installing
+=head1 QUICK START
Update your sources list:
@@ -64,6 +69,43 @@ And run
cp /usr/share/fapi/fapi.conf.sample ~/.fapi.conf
vim ~/.fapi.conf
+
+=head1 EXAMPLES
+
+=head2 Setting up simple NAT Services
+
+ (Docu to be written)
+
+=head2 Setting up simple SNAT Services
+
+ (Docu to be written)
+
+=head2 Setting up a simple nPath Service
+
+A simple nPath service can be created as follows.
+
+ # Creating two nodes, auto resolve the IP addresses
+ f node fooserver1.example.com create
+ f node fooserver2.example.com create
+
+ # Creating a pool and add the nodes to it
+ f pool foopool create
+ f pool foopool add member fooserver1.example.com:80
+ f pool foopool add member fooserver2.example.com:80
+
+ # Add a monitor to the pool
+ f pool foopool add monitor http_lbtest
+
+ # Create a nPath HTTP service, 'nPath' also auto disables NAT and PAT
+ f vserver myservice.example.com:80 create PROTOCOL_TCP nPath
+
+ # Add the pool to the service
+ f vserver myservice.example.com:80 set pool foopool
+
+ # Add a nPath HTTPS service
+ f vserver myservice.example.com:443 create PROTOCOL_TCP nPath
+ f vserver myservice.example.com:443 set pool foopool
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Paul C. Buetow - <paul@buetow.org>