iControlREST and Curl to save and download ASM policies

Hello Saidshow,

For any export/import on ASM, you need to use its /tasks endpoint, and file transfer endpoint afterwards.

In your case it is:

/mgmt/tm/asm/tasks/export-policy
/mgmt/tm/asm/file-transfer/downloads

NOTE: This is not possible in 11.5.4 as file_transfer endpoint for ASM was added in 11.6.x. You can attempt to use another endpoint for file transfer (see: this article )

If you are familiar with python, using this library would be your best choice:

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

Please have a look at the functional and unit tests as they should give you idea how to use it.

If you really want to use CURL, then I guess something like this should work:

1. Export to a file

curl -v -sk -u admin:admin https://myF5/mgmt/tm/asm/tasks/export-policy -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST -d '{"filename":"as_test.xml","policyReference":"{"link": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/asm/policies/yutqTnGiAizDLpdd_mkRvg"}"}'

• Policy link above would have to correspond to selfLink property of your intended exported policy.

2. Download the file

curl -v -sk -u admin:admin https://myF5/mgmt/tm/asm/file-transfer/downloads/as_test.xml -H 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream' -X GET

I hope this helps