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Rob_74473
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Sep 17, 2018

Trying to find virtual server type through python sdk

I am pulling virtual server info through the rest api and I need to find the type of the virtual server. In everything returned I don't see anything that looks like Standard or Performance (Fast L4) ...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Sep 24, 2018

Check the Q&A in change virtual server type with TMSH command?.

However, some virtual server types come with additional fields that indicate their types. For example, 

Forwarding (Layer 2)
comes with the 
l2-forward
field with no value (in tmsh) or 
l2Forward
with the value true (in iControl REST).

(tmos) list ltm virtual vs
ltm virtual vs {
    ....
    l2-forward
    ....
}

curl -sku admin:admin https:///mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/vs | python -m json.tool | grep l2
    "l2Forward": true,

Some don't. In that case, you need to infer the virtual server type from its profiles. For example, I would assume that the presence of 

fasthttp4
profile suggests that it is a 
Performance (HTTP)
type.

To my knowledge, there is no documentation, so you need to come up with your own heuristics.