Create node fails

What are you trying to accomplish with the any6 as an address? That will likely fail.

BTW, is there a reason you are doing this from scratch instead of using the f5-common-python sdk available on github?

The problem i have with the python SDK documentation: i am missing the function arguments. I tried to use the it but when trying to call create function the docs says **kywrds Where are the argument list? i did not find.

Checking with F5 sales represenetive - he told me he never used the SDK :( But prefered to use REST directly Chanan

What i was told to try: create the node/or any F5 object call the GET request to retrieve the object properties and then reverse it as a Post request. Chanan

Oh did he now...off with his head! 🙂

With the sdk:

>>> fqdn['tmName'] = 'node.test.local'
>>> node = b.tm.ltm.nodes.node.create(name='node.test.local', address='any6', partition='Common', fqdn=fqdn)

The key for you is to not supply every argument that you see on a GET. Just setting the object name, the address, and the fqdn is sufficient, so if you clean up your code to reflect that it should work just fine. Supplying the autopopulate or addressFamily attributes in the fqdn dictionary will fail on POST.

I contribute to the SDK as I have time, but the larger team working on it strive to make it easier on the end users. My $.02.

can you show a more full example? thanks Chanan

with sdk or without?

Will be really helpful both. Thanks alot Chanan

With the f5-common-python sdk:

import requests
from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot

 Ignore SSL Errors
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()

 Instantiate the BIG-IP
b = ManagementRoot('192.168.102.5', 'admin', 'admin', token=True)

 Create a node with IP address
node1 = b.tm.ltm.nodes.node.create(name='node1', address='192.168.102.100', partition='Common')

 Create a node with FQDN
node2 = b.tm.ltm.nodes.node.create(name='node2', address='any6', fqdn={'tmName': 'node2.test.local'}, partition='Common')

Without the sdk:

import requests, json

 Ignore SSL Errors
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()


 Get Token Function
def get_token(bigip, url, creds):
    payload = {}
    payload['username'] = creds[0]
    payload['password'] = creds[1]
    payload['loginProviderName'] = 'tmos'

    token = bigip.post(url, json.dumps(payload)).json()

    return token['token']['token']


 Set up request session
b = requests.session()
b.headers.update({'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
b.auth = ('admin', 'admin')
b.verify = False
 Call token function to get token
token = get_token(b, 'https://192.168.102.5/mgmt/shared/authn/login',
                  ('admin', 'admin'))
 Update auth from basic to token
b.auth = None
b.headers.update({'X-F5-Auth-Token': token})

 Create a node with IP address
payload = {}
payload['name'] = 'node3'
payload['partition'] = 'Common'
payload['address'] = '192.168.102.101'
node3 = b.post('https://192.168.102.5/mgmt/tm/ltm/node', data=json.dumps(payload))

 Create a node with FQDN
payload = {}
fqdn = {'tmName': 'node4.test.local'}
payload['fqdn'] = fqdn
payload['name'] = 'node4'
payload['address'] = 'any6'
payload['partition'] = 'Common'
node4 = b.post('https://192.168.102.5/mgmt/tm/ltm/node', data=json.dumps(payload))

All..

If you are dumbfounded with the error "", then you are not alone. I just spent the last couple of days yelling at my computer and the F5 API.

If you are using "Requests: HTTP for Humans" (https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/) module/library within Python to perform http requests to the API, and you are sending JSON objects as part of the data, then they must use the syntax:

json = { “key” : “value }

NOT:

data = { “key” : “value }

Example:

Perform a "Config-Sync" with the API, and using "data=postData" you will receive

{u'errorStack': [], u'message': u'Found invalid JSON body in the request.', u'code': 400, u'apiError': 1}

Changing that to "json=postData", removes the error as it properly encodes the json data into the request.

cpURL = "https://"+aHost+"/mgmt/tm/cm"
headers = { "content-type" : "application/json", 
            "X-F5-Auth-Token" : str(f5AuthToken)}
postData = {"command": "run",
            "utilCmdArgs": "config-sync to-group "+syncHosts[aHost] }
apiResponse = requests.post(cpURL, headers=headers, verify=False, json=postData)

Hope this helps!