NAME fapi - A humble command line tool to manage F5 BigIP loadbalancers This is a simple command line client to do basic stuff with the iControl F5 API such as: Managing Nodes Managing Monitors Managing Pools Managing Virtual Servers Synopsis Just run fapi -h or f -h because it's shorter to type. bigsuds Requirement of bigsuds This tool depends on bigsuds. Please install this library from F5 dev central manually. Otherwise this script will not work. You can download bigsuds from here: Unzip it and run sudo python setyp.py install iControl reference Through bigsuds you can do everything what iControl can do: Quick start Installing Update your sources list: curl http://deb.buetow.org/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add - echo 'deb http://deb.buetow.org/apt wheezy main' > \ /etc/apt/sourcees.list.d/buetoworg.list aptitude update And run aptitude install fapi cp /usr/share/fapi/fapi.conf.sample ~/.fapi.conf vim ~/.fapi.conf AUTHOR Paul C. Buetow - Also see