BigIP::iControl This package provides a Perl interface to the F5 BigIP iControl API. The F5 BigIP iControl API is an open SOAP/XML for communicating with supported F5 BIGIP products. The primary aim of this package is to provide a simplified interface to an already simple and intutive API and to allow the user to do more with less code. By reducing the API invocations to methods returning simple types,it is hoped that this module will provide a simple alternative for common tasks. The secondary aim for this package is to provide a simple interface for accessing statistical data from the iControl API for monitoring, recording, archival and display in other systems. This objective has largely been obsoleted in v11 with the introduction of new statistical monitoring and display features in the web UI. This package generally provides two methods for each each task; a raw method typically returning the response as received from iControl and a "stringified" method returning a parsed response. In general, the stringified methods will typically fufill most requirements and should usually be easier to use. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc iControl You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=iControl AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/iControl CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/iControl Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/iControl/ LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2011 Luke Poskitt This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.