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Julio_Navarro
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Jul 18, 2019

Using an asynchronous task | Creating UCS File

Hi, I am trying the following REST URL to create a task to generate a UCS File: Method: Post URI: mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/ Body: { "command": "save",    "name": "UCS01" } So, I get back: {...
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  • Jason_Adams's avatar
    Jason_Adams
    Apr 24, 2020

     ; to close the loop on this one, it appears that you the part that was missing in your request is the -X PUT request, to set the state to 'VALIDATING'

     

    # curl -k -u admin:admin -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT -d '{"_taskState":"VALIDATING"}' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563478591515657?ver=12.1.3.4
{
    "code":202,
    "message":"Task will execute asynchronously.",
    "errorStack":[]
}

    That is the request which is necessary to cause any task to begin processing. Until then, the task is waiting for any number of additional tasks to be added together.

cjunior's avatar
cjunior
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Jul 18, 2019

Hi,

Tested on v15.0.0 looks OK for me.

What BIG-IP version are you trying to?

curl -k -u admin:admin  -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  -d '{ "command": "save", "name": "UCS01" }' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs
 
{
  "_taskId": 1563470408202544,
  "_taskState": "STARTED",
  "_taskTimeInStateMs": 0,
  "_taskResultLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563470408202544/result?ver=15.0.0",
  "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563470408202544?ver=15.0.0"
}
curl -k -u admin:admin -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT -d '{"_taskState":"VALIDATING"}' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563470408202544
 
{
  "code": 202,
  "message": "Task will execute asynchronously.",
  "errorStack": []
}
curl -k -u admin:admin  https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563470408202544
 
{
  "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563470408202544?ver=15.0.0",
  "_taskId": 1563470408202544,
  "_taskState": "COMPLETED",
  "_taskTimeInStateMs": 13000,
  "_taskResultLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563470408202544/result?ver=15.0.0"
}
# ls -la /var/local/ucs
total 484520
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root      4096 Jul 18 14:29 .
drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root      4096 Jun 28 12:23 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 195341011 Jun 28 12:23 config.ucs
-r--r--r--. 1 root root       114 May 10 05:57 cs_backup_rotate.conf
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root      4096 Jun 28 12:43 tmp
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 300789664 Jul 18 14:15 UCS01.ucs
 

 

 

 

  • Julio_Navarro's avatar
    Julio_Navarro
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    Jul 18, 2019

    Hi, we are on version 12.1.3.4

    • cjunior's avatar
      cjunior
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      Jul 18, 2019

      Buddy, It works for me on v12.1.3.4.

      # curl -k -u admin:admin  -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json'  -d '{ "command": "save", "name": "UCS01" }' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs
{
    "_taskId":1563478591515657,
    "_taskState":"STARTED",
    "_taskTimeInStateMs":0,
    "_taskResultLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563478591515657/result?ver=12.1.3.4",
    "selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563478591515657?ver=12.1.3.4"
}
 
# curl -k -u admin:admin -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT -d '{"_taskState":"VALIDATING"}' https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563478591515657?ver=12.1.3.4
{
    "code":202,
    "message":"Task will execute asynchronously.",
    "errorStack":[]
}
 
# curl -k -u admin:admin  https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563478591515657?ver=12.1.3.4
{
    "selfLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563478591515657?ver=12.1.3.4",
    "_taskId":1563478591515657,
    "_taskState":"COMPLETED",
    "_taskTimeInStateMs":10000,
    "_taskResultLink":"https://localhost/mgmt/tm/task/sys/ucs/1563478591515657/result?ver=12.1.3.4"
}
 
 
# ls -la /var/local/ucs
total 3976
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root    4096 2019-07-18 12:37 .
drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root    4096 2019-07-18 12:20 ..
-r--r--r--. 1 root root     114 2018-04-10 13:52 cs_backup_rotate.conf
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    4096 2019-07-18 12:22 tmp
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4049809 2019-07-18 12:37 UCS01.ucs

      So, if you can save UCS from another way, we can't confirm issues during save the file.

      It sounds strange to me 😞