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ashish_solanki
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Apr 06, 2020

F5-SDK Installation

Hi All,   Need your help to install F5-SDK for LTM VM.   Regards, Ashish Solanki
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  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
    Apr 20, 2020

    Hello Ashish.

     

    I've tested in linux mint without any issue.

    You can check my log steps attached.

     

    KR,

    Dario.

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Hi Dario,

 

Is it necessary to have internet connectivity to install SDK because my LAB VM is not connected to internet.

 

Is this command need to be run in F5 VM itself, right (I'm not sure that's why asking)?

 

Regards,

Ashish Solanki

 

 

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Apr 09, 2020

Hello Ashish.

First, if you don't have previous experience, I recommend you to start with a graphical IDE (PyCharm in my case) and internet connection.

F5 SDK is composed by several modules and each of them have their own dependencies, so you would need to satisfy these requirements before having your enviroment ready to work.

If you access F5 Github repository you will see some of the modules provided by F5 SDK and their requirements.

  • f5-common-python
  • f5-icontrol-rest-python

REF - https://github.com/F5Networks

You can check what your current installed modules are in your enviroment with this:

# python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug  2 2019, 14:05:33) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> help("modules")
 
Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
[...output omitted]
>>> exit()

To install modules with internet:

REF - https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/

To install modules without internet:

REF - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11091623/how-to-install-packages-offline

KR,

Dario.