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AaronMLong_1021's avatar
AaronMLong_1021
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Jul 27, 2017

Authentication problems with iControl rest and bash

I have a strange problem: I wrote a script which invokes a iControl rest API call (with cURL), which, if I execute the curl command at my bash prompt, it works fine. however, running it from within c...
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cjunior
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Jul 28, 2017

I think I would do it a bit differently, but I think you're being betrayed by the quotes during command evaluation. Could you try this way?

 Stub to test config sync with iControl rest API

LB_PWD=''
PREFIX="curl -sk -u 'admin:$LB_PWD' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'"

function syncLBConfig {
    local LB=$1
    local GROUP=$2
    local JSON="{\"command\":\"run\",\"utilCmdArgs\":\"config-sync to-group ${GROUP}\"}"
    local URI="/mgmt/tm/cm"
    local CMD="${PREFIX} -X POST -d '${JSON}' https://${LB}${URI}"
    echo $CMD
    RESPONSE=$( eval ${CMD} )
    echo $RESPONSE
}

LB_NAME="f5ltm1.example.com"
HA_GROUP="failover-group"
syncLBConfig $LB_NAME $HA_GROUP