how to add multiple DNS zones for DNS Express

Greetings, For this type of work, I usually create a single object in the UI. and use either iControl REST or the Traffic Management Shell to list the object. From there, I can reverse engineer that object and continue using one of the interfaces to recreate it.

It is painful (for me) getting the first object to work. But, once it's working, you simply plug in the values for the next object. Also, you've learned some valuable TMSH or iControl skills.

For DNS Express, I notice iControl REST has these methods:

{"kind":"tm:ltm:dns:dnscollectionstate"
"selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns?ver=12.1.1"
{"reference":{"link":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/cache?ver=12.1.1"}}
{"reference":{"link":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/dnssec?ver=12.1.1"}}
{"reference":{"link":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver?ver=12.1.1"}}
{"reference":{"link":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/tsig-key?ver=12.1.1"}}
{"reference":{"link":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/zone?ver=12.1.1"}}]}

List the objects:

 curl -sk -u admin:admin https://172.24.171.20/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver

{"kind":"tm:ltm:dns:nameserver:nameservercollectionstate"
"selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver?ver=12.1.1"
"items":[{"kind":"tm:ltm:dns:nameserver:nameserverstate"
"name":"example"
"partition":"Common"
"fullPath":"/Common/example"
"generation":3
"selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver/~Common~example?ver=12.1.1"
"address":"10.12.23.27"
"port":53
"routeDomain":"/Common/0"

Add an object:

curl -k -u admin:admin https://172.24.171.20//mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"name":"example2","address":"10.12.23.28"}'

List again to see:

"selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver?ver=12.1.1"

"items":[{"kind":"tm:ltm:dns:nameserver:nameserverstate"
"name":"example"
"partition":"Common"
"fullPath":"/Common/example"
"generation":3
"selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver/~Common~example?ver=12.1.1"
"address":"10.12.23.27"
"port":53
"routeDomain":"/Common/0"


{"kind":"tm:ltm:dns:nameserver:nameserverstate"
"name":"example2"
"partition":"Common"
"fullPath":"/Common/example2"
"generation":5
"selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/dns/nameserver/~Common~example2?ver=12.1.1"
"address":"10.12.23.28"
"port":53
"routeDomain":"/Common/0"

The traffic management shell (TMSH) has these methods:

 create ltm dns ?
Modules:
  cache       DNS cache configuration to generate non-authoritative DNS responses.
  dnssec      DNS Security Extensions (dynamic signing on BIG-IP)
Components:
  nameserver  DNS nameserver configuration.
  tsig-key    TSIG Key configuration.
  zone        Zone configuration.

Repeat the same process:

 list ltm dns nameserver example
ltm dns nameserver example {
    address 10.12.23.27
    route-domain 0
}

You can run tmsh commands locally using SSH and if you set up SSH key auth, there will be no prompt

ssh root@172.24.171.20 'tmsh show sys version'

Sys::Version
Main Package
  Product     BIG-IP
  Version     12.1.1
  Build       0.0.183
  Edition     Final
  Date        Wed Jul 20 18:36:08 PDT 2016

Hope this is somewhat helpful, Kevin

Thank you very much for the reply Kevin.K

I was able to get the zones imported by creating a text file with the domain names and saving it to the local disk, then running the following command in bash:

for a in `cat /home/admin/Zones | awk '{print tolower($0)}'`; do echo "creating zone $a"; tmsh create ltm dns zone $a dns-express-allow-notify add {*IPaddress*} dns-express-server *DNS_Server*; done

OK. But... How can add zone using REST API? I need it to my auto-provisioning client system and it only talk API REST.

 

My regards