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Stefan_Klotz's avatar
Stefan_Klotz
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May 10, 2023

BIG-IQ Automatic Configuration-Discovery and -Import

We are currently using the BIQ-IQ not as single source of truth, meaning all configurations will still be done directly on the BIG-IPs. The BIG-IQ will only be used for management and monitoring purp...
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Brian_Van_Lieu
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May 17, 2023

As noted, BIG-IQ is an API based app, and the TMOS shell you see is there as a control plane only, with no BIG-IQ CLI to speak of. 

That being said, all the discovery/rediscovery actions done via the GUI can be automated via REST. This example may help get you started as you basically want to run rediscover/reimport actions. 

https://clouddocs.f5.com/products/big-iq/mgmt-api/v6.0.1/HowToSamples/bigiq_public_api_wf/t_discover_ltm.html

I don't have any personal examples of rediscovery as my use of BIG-IQ is with it as the source of truth and any re-discovery is done via the GUI, but plenty of other tasks have been done via Python or if you are um, seasoned, like me, Perl using the REST api 🙂 

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Stefan_Klotz
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Jun 07, 2023

Thanks Brian_Van_Lieu  for the link to the API-documentation with some examples.
I got the time today to spend some efforts and playing a little bit with Postman. I could successfully start/trigger a re-discover process for one of our managed BIG-IPs. Next step would be the re-import, but with these basics this shouldn't be a problem. Once I'm finished including the final script, I can provide it her.

Regards Stefan 🙂