Virtual Server Configuration Automation through REST API

here the documentation you need:

https://devcentral.f5.com/d/icontrol-rest-user-guide-version-131-246

Here, you can folow this lab, it will show you how to use API rest (you can download Postman_collection with request already built for vs, pool, ... creation)

http://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/programmability/html/class1/module1/lab2.html

Below, an example with curl:

1.1.1.1 is you management IP

• 1 authentication, retrieve token

This token will be re-use on the next steps...

curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username":"restapiuser","password":"restapiuser","loginProviderName": "tmos"}' https://1.1.1.1/mgmt/shared/authn/login

In response you should retrieve a token ...":{"token":"2MBZTX4RV2QKQDXWDRGG4XAETU"....

You have to reuse this token in order to access to F5

• 2 monitor creation

curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-F5-Auth-Token:2MBZTX4RV2QKQDXWDRGG4XAETU" -d '{"name":"my-monitor-api","send":"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: mymonitor.mydomain.com\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n","recv":""}' https://1.1.1.1/mgmt/tm/ltm/monitor/http

• 3 pool creation

curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-F5-Auth-Token:2MBZTX4RV2QKQDXWDRGG4XAETU" -d '{"name":"my-pool-api","monitor":"/Common/my-monitor-api"}' https://1.1.1.1/mgmt/tm/ltm/pool

• 4 http profile creation

curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-F5-Auth-Token:2MBZTX4RV2QKQDXWDRGG4XAETU" -d '{"name":"my-http-profile-api","insertXforwarderFor":"enabled","serverAgentName":"spirit"}' https://1.1.1.1/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/http

5 - vs creation

curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-F5-Auth-Token:2MBZTX4RV2QKQDXWDRGG4XAETU" -d '{"name":"my-vs-api","destination":"1.2.3.4:80","ipProtocol":"tcp","pool":"/Common/my-pool-api","sourceAddressTranslation":{"type":"automap"},"profiles": [{"name":"/Common/tcp", "context":"clientside" },{"name":"/Common/tcp-wan-optimized", "context":"serverside" },"/Common/my-http-profile-api"]}' https://1.1.1.1/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual

I suggest using the Python F5 SDK instead of making REST calls directly if you don't already have some other framework with its own REST client. The SDK uses the REST API but comes with the benefits of having Python tools available for data management and such:

 

http://f5-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/getting-started-with-the-f5-common-python-sdk-27438 https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/getting-started-with-the-python-sdk-part-2-unnamed-resources-and-commands-27602 https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/getting-started-with-the-python-sdk-part-3-working-with-statistics-31387

 

On top on what Jason Nance posted, I will add this to help you: https://lessonsintech.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/f5-python-sdk-basics/

 

F5-SDK will really make your life easy to create, delete, modify Pool, node, virtual servers.