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mvo_65102
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Jan 30, 2017

Native tmsh/bash commands via REST API

Hi all,   is there a way to execute native tmsh or bash commands using the REST API? As long as there are not all configurations controllable by REST i would like to execute some commands directly...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
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Feb 02, 2017

If you are looking for the iControl REST endpoint for executing a Unix command, that's 

/mgmt/tm/util/bash
. Here's an example (for 
ls /tmp
😞

curl -sku user:password -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"command\":\"run\", \"utilCmdArgs\": \"-c 'ls /tmp'\"}" \
  https:///mgmt/tm/util/bash

You can run a tmsh command in the same manner (e.g., 

tmsh list ltm virtual
😞

curl -sku user:password -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"command\":\"run\", \"utilCmdArgs\": \"-c 'tmsh list ltm virtual'\"}" \
  https:///mgmt/tm/util/bash

Output lines are concatenated (not easy to read), so you may want to parse it by piping the result to 

python -m json.tool | sed 's/\\n/\n/g'

Note that you will get 50x error when the execution of the specified command takes longer than a predefined timeout (about 60-90 seconds).

For more on the API, please refer to iControl REST API Reference Version 12.0.