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RHird_220962
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Sep 07, 2018

Pool unexpected argument when trying to patch pool member

I've been putting together some scripts to control our f5 via the iControl REST API but have run into some issues around permissions. I am trying to set a pool member to disabled. If I run as an admi...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
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Sep 11, 2018

Unless you have a very specific need for a custom role, I would suggest you to use a ready-made role. Find the one most appropriate from Manual Chapter: User Roles. If you really want to use a custom role, take a look at iControl REST Fine-Grained Role Based Access Control. Because it's tricky, you may want to contact F5 Professional Services for consultation.

For your information, here's a curl command for creating a new user with the role "operator".

curl https:///mgmt/tm/auth/user -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"newUser", "password":"newPassword", \
       "shell":"tmsh", "partitionAccess":[{"name":"all-partitions", "role":"operator"}]}'