Direct URIs for iControlREST calls

If you are trying to get the serial number out of the JSON output you can simply walk through the nested JSON until you get to what you're looking for.

Example for Serial Number path

["entries"]["https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/hardware/system-info"]["nestedStats"]["entries"]["https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/hardware/system-info/0"]["nestedStats"]["entries"]["bigipChassisSerialNum"]["description"]

So in python 2.7 using requests it would look like this

import json
import requests
from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning) Fixes certificate warning BS

def GetSerial(URI):
    request = requests.session()
    request.auth = ('USERNAME' , 'PASSWORD')
    request.verify = False
    request.headers.update({'Content-Type':'application/json'})
    response = request.get(URI)
    data = response.json()

    parse the JSON output for the Serial Number
    print (data["entries"]["https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/hardware/system-info"]["nestedStats"]["entries"]["https://localhost/mgmt/tm/sys/hardware/system-info/0"]["nestedStats"]["entries"]["bigipChassisSerialNum"]["description"])


uri = 'https://X.X.X.X/mgmt/tm/sys/hardware'
GetSerial(uri)