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Maximilien_Rieh
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Oct 22, 2014

iControl Rest API: Node description reliability problems

Hi, We're orchestrating f5 loadbalancers through the iControl rest API and we seem to be running into strange behaviour. A GET against /mgmt/tm/ltm/node/NODENAME returns information about tha...
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Mattias_Anderss
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Apr 28, 2015

Hi,

 

I've tried to reproduce this but haven't seen the session key missing. What version are you on? You might try to add "_return_fields" to the GET request to fields you wish to retrive? That might do the trick?

 

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    Apr 28, 2015
    Sorry, not "_return_fields" but "$select". For example: /mgmt/tm/ltm/node?ver=11.5.0&$select=session,name { "kind": "tm:ltm:node:nodecollectionstate", "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/node?$select=session%2Cname&expandSubcollections=true&ver=11.5.0", "items": [ { "name": "node1", "session": "monitor-enabled" }]}