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Mike_Rizzo_6112
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Jun 30, 2015

400 error when creating LTM monitor with iControlREST

Hello DevCentral community,

I'm getting started using iControl REST and I'm getting an unexpected error when I try to send a POST to create a new LTM monitor. Here is what I'm sending with curl:

curl -sk -u admin:secret https://bigip-lab-box.local/mgmt/tm/ltm/monitor/ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST -d '{"name":"testmonitor","defaultsFrom":"/Common/http","destination":"*:80","interval":"5","timeout":"16","send":"GET /up.txt","recv":"200"}'

From this, I receive the response:

{"code":400,"message":"Found unexpected json pair at module /ltm/monitor. The json pair is \"testmonitor\":null.","errorStack":[]}

I've tried adding a few additional properties such as "partition" and got the same error, so I've kept the example to the basics. As far as I can tell the JSON component is formatted correctly, and it contains values for all of the same options I would set when using tmsh from the command line.

I'm executing this against a Virtual Edition appliance running BigIP 11.5.3 (build 0.0.163).

If anybody has an idea where I'm going wrong, I'd very much appreciate the help!

1 Reply

  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Jun 30, 2015

    Mike,

    You need to go into the Sub-module to do this. Try:

    curl -sk -u admin:secret https://bigip-lab-box.local/mgmt/tm/ltm/monitor/http -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST -d '{"name":"testmonitor","defaultsFrom":"/Common/http","destination":"*:80","interval":"5","timeout":"16","send":"GET /up.txt","recv":"200"}'

    Notice the http after ...ltm/monitor/

    This worked for me.

    Hope this helps,

    N