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Brad_Baker
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Nov 27, 2023

Modifying multiple entries in a datagroup via api?

We have a datagroup with entries like this:   domain1.com := virtual /Common/www.domain1.com_vs_443 domain2.com := virtual /Common/www.domain2.com_vs_443 domain3.com := virtual /Common/www.domain3...
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  • Sebastiansierra's avatar
    Sebastiansierra
    Nov 27, 2023

    Hi Brad_Baker

    You can additionally edit the content for a specific register

    curl -ku "admin:Logi-123" -X PATCH -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '{ "name":"test_domain" }' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/data-group/internal/test_domain?options=records%20modify%20%7B%20key3%20%7B%20data%20ke3new%20%7D%20%7D|jq .

    as tmos you can use all of this option to interact with the data-groups

    add      delete      modify     none        replace-all-with

     to avoid mistakes use a tool to encode and decode the URL. 

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Sebastiansierra
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Nov 27, 2023

Hi Brad_Baker,

to avoid mistakes you can use this curl call format to have more clear the new records that you want to create:

curl -ku "admin:admin" -X PATCH 'https://192.168.30.1/mgmt/tm/ltm/data-group/internal/test_domain' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "records": [
        {
            "name": "domain1.com",
            "data": "virtual /Common/maintenance.domain1.com_vs_443"
        },
        {
            "name": "domain2.com",
            "data": "virtual /Common/maintenance.domain2.com_vs_443"
        },
        {
            "name": "domain3.com",
            "data": "virtual /Common/maintenance.domain3.com_vs_443"
        }
    ]
}'
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    Brad_Baker
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    Nov 27, 2023

    Sebastiansierra manually add domain4.com, domain5.com and domain6.com into the datagroup from the UI. Then run the curl request above. You'll see domain4/5/6 disappear. That's what I want to prevent. I want the query to only touch domain1-3 and leave domain4-6 alone. 

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        Brad_Baker
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        Nov 27, 2023

        Sebastiansierra The link you provided above is in my original post. I had already found it.

        Unfortunately, it seems that you can only change one record at a time using that approach.

        I want to update several records at once but without performing multiple http requests and without updating every single record. 

        We're using this datagroup for ALL our VIPs, so if something happens to it (such as an incomplete post request, or bad regex match) all all sites stop working. Thus why I want to make changes as targeted as possible.