How can we configure fastL4 VS using icontrol rest

I assume you have a virtual already and would like to add the

fastL4

profile to it (see iControl REST Cookbook - Virtual Server for how to create a virtual).

Generally speaking, you can add a profile to a virutal using

POST

method to the virtual's

profiles

endpoint. For example, to add the

http

profile to the virtual

vs

:

 curl -sku admin:pass https://mgmtIP/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/vs/profiles \
 -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"http"}'

where admin:pass is the userID/password pair, and mgmtIP is the management IP address of the BIG-IP.

However, adding the

fastL4

profile isn't that straight forward as the profile may conflict with the existing profile. For example, if you attempt to add it to a virtual with the

tcp

profile using tmsh, you will get the following error.

 modify ltm virtual vs profiles add { fastL4 }
01070095:3: Virtual server /Common/vs lists incompatible profiles.

You need to replace all the profiles just like the

replace-all-with

tmsh command (verb?). Here's the step.

1) Get the configuration of the virtual. You need the

?expandSubcollections=true

.

 curl -sku admin:pass https://mgmtIP/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/vs?expandSubcollections=true \
 | python -m json.tool > sat 

2) Edit the

profilesReference

section of the file. If the virtual had only

tcp

profile, it looks like this:

    "profilesReference": {
        "isSubcollection": true,
        "items": [
            {
                "context": "all",
                "fullPath": "/Common/tcp",
                "generation": 493,
                "kind": "tm:ltm:virtual:profiles:profilesstate",
                "name": "tcp",
                "nameReference": {
                    "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/tcp/~Common~tcp?ver=13.1.0"
                },
                "partition": "Common",
                "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~vs/profiles/~Common~tcp?ver=13.1.0"
            }
        ],
        "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~vs/profiles?ver=13.1.0"
    },

Replace everything related to the

tcp

profile. You can remove unnecessary fields: The system will populate the default values. e.g.,

    "profilesReference": {
        "isSubcollection": true,
        "items": [
            {
                "context": "all",
                "name": "fastL4",
                "partition": "Common"
            }
        ],
        "link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~vs/profiles?ver=13.1.0"
    },

3) Put the file there.

 curl -sku admin:pass https://mgmtIP/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/vs \
 -H "Content-type: application/json" -X PUT -d@sat

There could be a better way to achieve this, but this is the best I could do so far.

I hope this helps.