Big-IQ snapshot management

After this, we figured which snapshots are older than 90 days and we performed the following:

#Building up the 'restcurl' command for deletion
restcurl_delete = "restcurl -u admin:admin -d '{'items':[" + json.dumps(ids_to_delete) + "]}' -X DELETE /cm/asm/tasks/snapshot-config/"
 
#Here is the subprocess in action, to delete IDs one by one
delete_command = subprocess.Popen(restcurl_delete, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True).stdout.read()

We added a few 'prints' here and there within the .py script, to make sure the snapshot were deleted.

Anyway, I hope this can help someone, not only for this particular case, you can use it as a guide for python scripts where you cannot use the REST API calls against the Big-IQ or Big-IP, instead you have to execute Bash commands against the boxes for some particular reason.

Good luck!