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Royce_110733
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May 21, 2016

Create HTTPS Pool Monitor on LTM using Ansible

My team recently started testing Ansible functionality for building objects on our F5 LTMs. Part of the process that we would like to automate is the creation of pool monitors. I can successfully c...
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Royce_110733
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Jun 02, 2016

In the end, I decided to use Ansible to build a python script that makes cURL posts to the iControl REST API in order to build objects on the LTM. I used the requests and json libraries in python and the total work was only a few hours. I decided to go down this path so the python script could go through a review workflow before it was executed.

 

If anyone is interested I can provide some examples of the Ansible and Python configs.

 

  • jbilbro_41390's avatar
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    Aug 12, 2016

    Yes, please post your example Ansible and Python code!

     

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    Feb 02, 2017

    @Royce, Even i am also trying to do a similar stuff , it would be great if you can share the example Thanks

     

  • Nazir_52641's avatar
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    May 24, 2017
    Hi Senthil,jbilbro,

You can use iControl REST API using uri module to create any object in F5. Below sample code is used to create node in F5.

 - name: " Create node"
   uri:
     url: "https://bigip1.example.com/mgmt/tm/ltm/node/"
     method: "POST"
     validate_certs: no
     username: "admin"
     password: "admin"
     body_format: "json"
     body:
       name: "192.168.5.100"
       partition: "Common"
       address: "192.168.5.100"
   delegate_to: localhost

Thanks
Syed Nazir