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Cory_Blankenshi
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Jun 04, 2019

iControl Rest Transaction Commit Fails Due to Missing Transaction ID?

I started using transactions with token auth to move some configurations between two of our BIG-IPs, but I'm hitting a weird issue: when I try to commit the transaction, I get an error stating that t...
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Cory_Blankenshi
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Jun 05, 2019

This error occurs when you attempt to commit a transaction that doesn't include any commands that create, modify, or delete an object on the F5. GET requests don't count towards the transaction command list.

 

There wasn't anything I remember seeing in the documentation about this and the error message had nothing at all to do with the issue, hence my confusion. Once I threw a few POST requests into the mix, the transaction went through.