What kind of account do I need to access the REST API?

Admin privilege would definitely work. I guess [host] is replaced by F5 management IP in your case. Also, script has "import requests, json"

@Only1masterblaster: Thanks for the response. I intentionally do the "[host]" thing to hide the real ip. I'm not yet importing json module as I'm not parsing any json data yet since the error message is clear. How would I check if my account has admin privileges to access the REST API.

If you login to the F5 via HTTPS (GUI), it will tell at the top your user and the type of your account.

I remember a friend saying that REST initially required admin role account when released in 11.5.0, but in 11.6.0 (I think) other users could access. I tried to confirm that looking the release notes, but I could not find anything in relation to that.

Anyway, just try to login to REST via HTTPS, using a browser.

https:///mgmt/toc

That will tell you if your account will work with REST or not.

After your credentials are adjusted so that you can access the API, I would take a look at either the f5-sdk or iCR APIs. Both have the REST API under the hood, but making requests to the f5 and getting back data is pretty easy.

Here's some sample code using the iCR API:

!/usr/bin/env python
from iCR import iCR
import json

f5 = iCR.iCR('my.f5.com', 'userID', 'password')
result = f5.get('your/endpoint')
print json.dumps(result, indent=4, sort_keys=True)   pretty print the json output

@Tom, I've downloaded the package already (iCR). Just waiting for my credentials to be adjusted. BTW, is this compatible with 11.5.4 and 12.1.2? Currently, I'm dealing with two versions.

I'm not sure about 11.5.4, but it's definitely compatible with 12.1.2 (that's the version we use). Unless there were massive API changes between the two versions though, I would think that code would be good for both. I would be surprised if the API would work for 12+ and not 11.5+.

@Tom, what value should I put in replacement to ''? Is it 'https://[myip].com?

@Mel, I use the URL for my F5 (without https://)

what is a typical bug resolution ETA , running into a bunch of errors with the F5 API and support is not able to help.