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James_Betts_290
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Dec 13, 2016

Python f5.bigip VIP issue

I wrote some sample code and was able to retrieve a VIP like this: VIP = mgmt.tm.ltm.virtuals.virtual.load(partition='Common', name='Foo')   When I ran the code against my production server, most ...
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    James_Betts_290
    Dec 22, 2016

    Turns out a solution existed but wasn't in the docs.

     

    There is a parameter "subPath" that can be used in queries and updates:

     

    Code: VIP = mgmt.tm.ltm.virtuals.virtual.load(partition='Common', subPath='iApp', name='myVIP')
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JG
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Dec 14, 2016

That Python lib looks like having some catching-up to do. Meanwhile, you can try something like this:

vservers = mgmt.tm.ltm.virtuals.get_collection()
for vs in vservers:
    if vs.fullPath = '/Common/Foo/bar'
        ...