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Cirrus

Feb 12, 2024

iControl REST API Pool Member disable

Hello Everyone, Iam working on an script to disable the pool members but seems we are getting issues, I tried multiple types but still its not working. Could someone review the below and quote m...

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JRahm

Feb 12, 2024

also FYI...if you get a working postman sample, you can click the </> icon and find samples in a lot of tools/languages of that specific query.

And the python sample they shared from my working postman PATCH is:

import requests
import json

url = "https://ltm15/mgmt/tm/ltm/pool/~Common~nginx-pool/members/~Common~172.16.102.5:80"

payload = json.dumps({
  "session": "user-disabled",
  "state": "user-down"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Basic notsofastmyfriends',
  'Cookie': 'BIGIPAuthCookie=supersecretpassphrasehere; BIGIPAuthUsernameCookie=admin'
}

response = requests.request("PATCH", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

JRahm

Admin

you need to format your python dictionary as json...

json.dumps({"session": "user-disabled"})

JRahm

Admin

Feb 12, 2024

also FYI...if you get a working postman sample, you can click the </> icon and find samples in a lot of tools/languages of that specific query.

And the python sample they shared from my working postman PATCH is:

import requests
import json

url = "https://ltm15/mgmt/tm/ltm/pool/~Common~nginx-pool/members/~Common~172.16.102.5:80"

payload = json.dumps({
  "session": "user-disabled",
  "state": "user-down"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Basic notsofastmyfriends',
  'Cookie': 'BIGIPAuthCookie=supersecretpassphrasehere; BIGIPAuthUsernameCookie=admin'
}

response = requests.request("PATCH", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

whisperer
MVP
Feb 13, 2024
Make sure you set those headers as mentioned. It gets pissy if you dont give it content-type!
ashk
Cirrus
Feb 13, 2024
ah, thank you for this, I tried the same and seems working now calling json.dumps. Also, my initial method is PATCH - PATCH, now I changed it to POST - PATCH.

PostMan Payload do work to copy the exact text. :)

Cheers.!!