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Joel_Breton
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May 26, 2017

Add allowed VLAN to Virtual Server - Python F5-SDK

I'm trying to set the allowed vlan on a virtual server using the Python SDK.

 

Here's my code

 

newvs = vs.virtual.create(name='myvs', destination='10.0.0.1:80')
newvs.mask = '255.255.255.255'
newvs.pool = 'mypool'
newvs.vlansDisabled = False
newvs.vlansEnabled = True
newvs.vlan = 'myvlan'
newvs.update()

The script runs successfully but the vlan is not added to the allowed vlan list.

 

If I add the vlan manually via the config utility and browse the API I noticed the vlan option uses square brackets [].

 

vlans: [ "/Common/myvlan" ]

 

Please advise. 🙂

 

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    Joel_Breton
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    May 26, 2017

    After a few hours of troubleshooting I found the solution. 

    newvs.vlans = ['myvlan']
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    Joel_Breton
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    May 31, 2017

    I would advise against using an absolute update on a BIG-IP object as this activates the custom checkbox for every setting - unless this is your intent

    Instead of 

    newvs = vs.virtual.create(name='myvs', destination='10.0.0.1:80')
newvs.mask = '255.255.255.255'
newvs.update()

    Use this approach

    newvs = vs.virtual.create(name='myvs', destination='10.0.0.1:80')
newvs.update(mask='255.255.255.255')