iControl library for Python

Michael,

Short answer.. not to my knowledge.

Long answer... Python requests package has everything you need to make REST calls and fully interogate the the response from the BIG-IP. Using iControl REST with python requests is really easy. You'll need the json package too, but that comes with pythong 2.7+, otherwise simplejson is available via pip or typically your OS's package management.

Basic workflow is:

1) create a requests session 2) get the REST URI to manage your object 3) call the get (list), post (create), put (update), or delete (delete) request method for URI on your requests session

Here is a quick barebone example off the top of my head:

import json
import requests

username = [your BIG-IP user]
password = [your BIG-IP password]
hostname = [your BIG-IP host]

 setup up a requests session
icr_session = requests.session()
icr_session.auth = (username, password)
 not going to validate the HTTPS certifcation of the iControl REST service
icr_session.verify = False
 we'll use JSON in our request body and expect it back in the responses
icr_session.headers.update({'Content-Type': 'application/json'}) 
 this is the base URI for iControl REST
icr_url = '' % hostname

 Simple example - get all LTM pool attributes
folder = [your folder name]
pool_name = [your pool name]

 add the module URI parts
request_url += icr_url + '/ltm/pool/'
 here is an example of calling an object explicitly.
request_url += '~' + folder + '~' + pool_name

 call the get method on your requests session
response = icr_session.get(request_url)

 look at the response
if response.status_code < 400:
    response_obj = json.loads(response.text)
    print "response %s" % response_obj

If you learn how to use the '$filter=partition eq ' + folder' query varibale to limit the query scope to a specific folder and the '$select=name,description...' to limit the attributes returned on your BIG-IP objects, you will be off and running.

I typically prototyping my REST calls in Google Chrome browser POSTMAN application. You'll see the URI, query variables, JSON inputs and outputs required to get exactly what you want from the BIG-IP. Makes it nice, simple, and quick.

For future finders of this post:

F5 Friday: Python SDK for BIG-IP

https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-common-python

what is folder name refer to ?