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Cirrus

Jan 31, 2017

RESTAPI - Delete sys connection

I've been doing some work with the Rest API, and have been able to successfully show the connection table and limit it to a client address. However I'd like to delete the connections for a speci...

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Satoshi_Toyosa1

Ret. Employee

Feb 03, 2017

That's a very difficult question.

First of all, iControl® REST API User Guide, Version 12.1.0 states that "With the exception of the asm module, query parameters are limited to GET requests" - so it does not work for DELETE. Also, because all the connection table entries are treated as one chunk of string data under

apiRawValues

(as you can see in the response to GET), it is theoretically not possible to pick selected entries.

Interesting enough, in some TMOS versions, you may be able to DELETE entries selectively using the options query, however, it is not currently supported (to my knowledge).

An alternative way to achieve this goal is to call the equivalent tmsh command via the