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Bhudson
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Apr 15, 2020

Python F5SDK - Is Modify Supported?

I've been tasked with automating our code deployments and thus need to disable (or force offline) our pool members to allow that.   I am logging in with an operator account and am using token aut...
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  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
    Apr 16, 2020

    IIRC, with modify, you need to pass the attributes you are wanting to patch in as kwargs instead of setting the attributes directly as with the update method.

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JRahm
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Apr 16, 2020

IIRC, with modify, you need to pass the attributes you are wanting to patch in as kwargs instead of setting the attributes directly as with the update method.

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    Bhudson
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    Apr 16, 2020

    Thanks Jason. Amended code below works as desired. Chalk this up to a mistake with understanding kwargs and python. Executing the code below yields a curl command that shows the data element correctly as well.

     

    from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot

    from f5.utils.responses.handlers import Stats

    import json

     

    mgmt = ManagementRoot(hostname=<myIPHere>, username=<myusername>, password=<mypassword>, token=True, debug=True);

     

    myPool = mgmt.tm.ltm.pools.pool.load(partition='Common', name='<pool name>')

     

    myPoolMembers = myPool.members_s.get_collection()

     

    for poolMember in myPoolMembers:

    print(poolMember.raw)

    poolMember.modify(session='user-disabled')

     

    # Here only to get curl commands for debug purposes

    for x in mgmt.debug_output:

    print()

    print(x)