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Network_Team1
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Dec 10, 2019

iControl REST - filtering by anything other than partition

Hello,   I'm trying to use the iControl REST API to communicate with the F5s. There's a "$filter" parameter that can be passed along with GET requests, but the only examples I've seen use that to...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Dec 12, 2019

One option is to run a script on the BIG-IP box via iControl REST, and retrieve the result after it completes. If the tasks are mostly tmsh related, a tmsh script might be good. You can execute a tmsh script like this:

curl -sku $PASS https://$HOST/mgmt/tm/cli/script/sat.tcl \
  -X POST -H "Content-type: application/JSON" \
  -d '{"command":"run"}'

where sat.tcl is the script.