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Patrik_Jonsson1
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Apr 26, 2017

Demystifying the iControl Rest API documentation

Hi!   Just started to dabble with the REST interface and so far it's been going great, but I've run into some problems with decrypting the API documentation.   Looking at the doc for client SSL...
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Patrik_Jonsson
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Jun 21, 2017

To anyone reading this in the same situation. Might seem obvious (I missed it though), but the easiest way is to reverse engineer the objects by retrieving current configuration.

Example:

curl -sku user:password https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/client-ssl/ | json-format

      ...Previous config omitted
      "certKeyChain": [
        {
          "name": "default",
          "cert": "/Common/default.crt",
          "certReference": {
            "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/file/ssl-cert/~Common~default.crt?ver\u003d12.1.2"
          },
          "key": "/Common/default.key",
          "keyReference": {
            "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/file/ssl-key/~Common~default.key?ver\u003d12.1.2"
          }
        }

Remove the reference properties and you are good to go!

/Patrik