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karthi4187_3115
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Jun 14, 2018

Virtual Server Configuration Automation through REST API

I want to create nodes and assign them to pool and create Virtual Server with the pool through REST API. Is it Possible? Could you please point out to some documentation?  
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Jason_Nance
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Jun 14, 2018

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