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donfouts_363600
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Apr 24, 2019

is there a place to find a resource's required configuration identifies?

I am getting the following error: one or more configuration identifiers must be provided

I am POST to https://$f5ip/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common/

below is the payload i am passing as the body json

{
    "source":  "0.0.0.0/0",
    "ipProtocol":  "tcp",
    "description":  "autocreated sitename_vs",
    "rateLimit":  "disabled",
    "destination":  "VIP:443",
    "mask":  "255.255.255.0",
    "rules":  [
                  "_sys_https_redirect"
              ],
    "Name":  "sitename_vs",
    "sourceAddressTranslation":  {
                                     "type":  "automap"
                                 },
    "pool":  "poolname_pool",
    "partition":  "Common"
}

I have read through the icontrol rest api user guide, but found little help.

thanks,

devops
iControlREST
LTM
  • Niels_van_Sluis's avatar
    Niels_van_Sluis
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    Apr 24, 2019

    This one works for me:

    POST https://{{bigip_a_mgmt}}/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual

    And the body:

    {
    "source":  "0.0.0.0/0",
    "ipProtocol":  "tcp",
    "description":  "autocreated sitename_vs",
    "rateLimit":  "disabled",
    "destination":  "10.23.98.222:443",
    "mask":  "255.255.255.255",
    "rules":  [
              "_sys_https_redirect"
          ],
    "name":  "sitename_vs",
    "sourceAddressTranslation":  {
                                 "type":  "automap"
                             },
    "profiles" : [ {
        "kind" : "ltm:virtual:profile",
        "name" : "http"
    }],
    "pool":  "pool_test",
    "partition":  "Common"
}

    I had to correct "Name" to "name", the mask from "255.255.255.0" to "255.255.255.255" and add the http profile. This is needed when using the _sys_https_redirect iRule.

  • donfouts_363600's avatar
    donfouts_363600
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    Apr 24, 2019

    this is the corrected code = after following the answer below,

     

    but i wanted to post this for any other Powershell users out there...

     

                                     
    virtual server creation      
                                 


$snap = @{}
$snap.Add('type','automap')
$snapp = $snap | convertto-json

$profile = @{}
$profile.add('kind','ltm:virtual:profile')
$profile.add('name','http')
$profile.add('partition','Common')


 check to see if vs is already created
$uri = "https://$f5ip/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/$vs"
reset err value
$err = $false
try{$resp=Invoke-WebRequest -Method Get -Uri $uri -insecure -Headers $headers -Credential $credentials}catch{$err = $_.Exception}

if($err.Response.statuscode -match 'NotFound')
{
    write-error 'returned a 4xx, virtual server must not exist'
     create https vs
    $URI = "https://$f5ip/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual"
    $rules = @("_sys_https_redirect")

    $body = @{"name"="$vs";
        "partition"="Common";
        "rateLimit"="disabled";
        "ipProtocol"="tcp";
        "source"="0.0.0.0/0";
        "destination"="${stgvip}:443";
        "mask"="255.255.255.255";
        "description"="autocreated $vs";
        "pool"=$PoolName;
        "profiles"= @($profile);
        "sourceAddressTranslation"=$snap}

    $JSONBody = $body | ConvertTo-Json 
    $newvirtualserver = invoke-webrequest -Method POST -URI "$URI" -Insecure -Body $JSONBody -Headers $headers -Credential $credentials
}else{
    write-error 'server already exists'
}