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NiHo_202842
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Aug 19, 2015

Run mkdir over iControl REST for disappearing /var/config/rest/downloads/tmp

Hello,

 

I am currently writing the code for automating our ssl cert deployment among other things. I upload files to the Bigip device to shared/file-transfer/uploads/ This only works when the directory /var/config/rest/downloads/tmp exists. I noticed this periodically is removed again. Is there a way I can run an mkdir over REST to fix this?

 

Regards

 

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  • JoshBecigneul's avatar
    JoshBecigneul
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    Aug 19, 2015

    Something like this should work. This basic example is in python, using the requests module and the json module to convert the dict to json. 

    import requests
import json
s = requests.session()
s.auth = ('admin','admin')
s.verify = False

ip = "some.IP"
url = "/mgmt/tm/util/bash"
payload = { "command":"run",
            "utilCmdArgs":"-c 'mkdir /var/config/rest/downloads/tmp'" }
resp = s.post("https://"+ip+url, data=json.dumps(payload))
print resp.text

Returns: {"kind":"tm:util:bash:runstate","utilCmdArgs":"-c 'mkdir /var/config/rest/downloads/tmp'","command":"run","commandResult":"mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/config/rest/downloads/tmp': File exists\n"}

    The equivalent command in tmsh would be: run /util bash -c 'mkdir /var/config/rest/downloads/tmp'

    Now I don't know how well supported this method is or if it will continue to exist, but it works for me.