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syncretism
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Jul 07, 2017

Querying VIPs' Details When the Name Attribute is Unreliable

I’m tasked with automating some basic f5 tasks, but am not a network admin. I’ll start by thanking this community for the the friendly tips I’ve received since I started this project; y’all have been...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
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Jul 10, 2017

selfLink is also a good option. e.g.,

 

 curl -sku admin: https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual?\$select=selfLink 
{ kind: 'tm:ltm:virtual:virtualcollectionstate',
  selfLink: 'https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual?$select=selfLink&ver=11.6.1',
  items:
   [ { selfLink: 'https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~TestApp.app~TestApp_vs?ver=11.6.1' },
     { selfLink: 'https://localhost/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/~Common~http?ver=11.6.1' } ]
}

 

Obviously, you need to change the localhost part but it's easier than selectively replacing / to ~ (i.e., | sed 's/localhost/myHost/').