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Rich_W__77692
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Oct 23, 2012

Adding a user with Ruby & iControl

Hello.

 

I've been knocking my brains out trying to get the Ruby iControl gem to add a user to a device. The complex type on this one is throwing me for a loop. If I can get the simple code down, I can expand it, but I can't get my head around the structure of user_info_3.

 

Here's my simple code:

 

bigip = F5::IControl.new(bigip_address, bigip_user, bigip_pass, ["Management.UserManagement"]).get_interfaces

 

bigip["Management.UserManagement"].create_user_3([[{'name' => 'Guest', 'full_name' => 'Guest User'}], [{'is_encrypted' => false, 'password' => 'abcd'}], [{'role' => 'USER_ROLE_GUEST', 'partition' => 'Common'}], ['/bin/false']])

 

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

 

rjwiii

 

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  • Rich_W__77692's avatar
    Rich_W__77692
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    Oct 23, 2012
    Update:

     

     

    The error I was getting with the code above was: ": Could not find element by name: name (SOAP::FaultError)"

     

     

    I have since tried the following:

     

     

    bigip["Management.UserManagement"].create_user_3([{'user' => [{'name' => 'Guest', 'full_name' => 'Guest User'}], 'password' => [{'is_encrypted' => 'false', 'password' => 'abcd'}], 'permissions' => [{'role' => 'USER_ROLE_GUEST', 'partition' => 'Common'}], 'login_shell' => ['/bin/false']}])

     

     

    and I get a new error: ": Cannot convert null value to a boolean. (SOAP::FaultError)"

     

     

    Is this progress? :)

     

     

    Any help?
  • George_Watkins_'s avatar
    George_Watkins_
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    Nov 02, 2012

    Rich,

     

     

    Here you go:

     

     

    bigip['Management.UserManagement'].create_user_3([{'user' => {'name' => 'Guest', 'full_name' => 'Guest User'}, 'password' => {'is_encrypted' => 'false', 'password' => 'abcd'}, 'permissions' => [ {'role' => 'USER_ROLE_GUEST', 'partition' => 'Common'} ], 'login_shell' => '/bin/false'}])

     

    Best regards,

     

     

    George

     

     

  • Rich_W__77692's avatar
    Rich_W__77692
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    Nov 02, 2012

    Mr. Watkins,

     

     

    I had extra [] pairs in there I didn't need ... Your code worked like a charm.

     

     

    I am using Ruby 1.9.3, so when using the F5 gem, I had to install the soap4r-ruby1.9 gem as mentioned in a previous post. All the warning messages associated with plain soap4r have dissapeared save one:

     

     

    /ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use Stringencode instead.

     

     

    I'm not sure if it is related to soap4r-ruby1.9 ...

     

     

    I have also been playing around using iControl with the Savon gem (http://savonrb.com) with good results. Have you considered giving Savon a try?

     

     

    I also use rvm (http://rvm.io) to test with different versions of Ruby.

     

     

    I am a life long geek, but I will admit to being fairly new to Ruby and very new to soap & F5 devices ... :) Wish me luck.

     

     

    A HUGE thank you for your help.

     

     

    rjwiii