TMSH command generation

I might recommend that iControl may be a preferred mechanism for making changes of this type, because it has stronger support for programmability and support any language binding that supports SOAP (pre-11.5) or API over HTTP ("REST", 11.5+):

 

• SOAP-based iControl
• REST-based iControl

Having said that, tmsh commands can be run from the bash shell, and thus incorporated into any scripting language on the BIG-IP itself (generally, bash, tclsh, perl or python). Alternatively, tmsh scripts, which use Tcl with some additional commands, can be used on a BIG-IP to extend tmsh (usually to batch tmsh commands):

 

• TMSH