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mvo_65102's avatar
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's avatar
Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Dec 10, 2018

You can use the 

/mgmt/tm/ltm/node
endpoint for node creation instead of calling 
/mgmt/tm/util/bash
to run the tmsh command. The equivalent 
curl
command for 
tmsh create ltm node TEST3 address 3.3.3.3
is

curl -sku : https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/node \
  -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"name":"TEST3", "address":"3.3.3.3"}'

If Python is your choice, you may want to check the F5 Python SDK. See F5 Python SDK Documentation.