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Erich_Macbeth_2's avatar
Erich_Macbeth_2
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Apr 23, 2019

Is it possible to install vCMP host image from the vCMP guest CLI?

I have transferred a new image to a vCMP host and was attempting to a run a script to install the image on of the all guests on the host. It returned the following error:   Data Input Error: Could...
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youssef1's avatar
youssef1
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Apr 23, 2019

Hi,

Using tmsh:

create guest [name]
modify guest [name]
    hostname [hostname]
    app-service [[string] | none]
    initial-hotfix [hotfix-filename]
    initial-image [image-filename]
    management-gw [ip-address]
    management-ip [ip-address/netmask | ip-address/prefixlen]
    management-network [bridged | isolated]
    slots [integer]
    traffic-profile [vcmp-traffic-profile-name]
    min-slots [integer]
    allowed-slots {
    [slot ID] ...
    }
    cores-per-slot [integer]
    state [configured | provisioned | deployed]
    virtual-disk [filename]
    vlans [add | delete | replace-all-with] {
    [VLAN name] ...
    }
    capabilities [add | delete | modify | replace-all-with] {
    [capability Id] [ { value [integer] } ]
    }

For more info (page 1864):

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-tmsh-reference-12-0-0.pdf

Using API rest:

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControlREST.APIRef_tm_vcmp_guest.ashx

regards,