How to create a Traffic group or Partition in Big-IQ

Hi,

As far as I'm aware, you cannot create traffic groups on the BigIQ and then push them to the BigIP's. (Haven't tested this on 8.1 yet, but unlikely) The way the BigIQ's currently work with BigIP clustering, is that you create the traffic groups on the BigIP's, then import the devices to inform the BigIQ about it, so that the BigIQ can work with it (for failovers and for creating new objects), but that's about it.

So the way you are doing it now (creating them on the BigIP's sounds correct to me.

You are also correct that the BigIQ CLI is quite limited in what you can do for managing the BigIP's - all of this is done either via the GUI, or via REST API calls to the BigIQ or BigIP. For scripting, you can have a look at AS3 or Ansible to create them and then push the scripts out to the BigIP's?

Hope this helps.