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syncretism
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Jun 22, 2017

What's the Best Way to Derive a Device-Group Name Over REST?

In order to create some scaleable BigIP automation, I need to be able to sync my active and standby balancers. To do this, I need to know the name of the device group. I've been using JQ to filter th...
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Jun 22, 2017

I suppose I am. As it stands, I have to pull sync status to get the name of the device group, which I then use to sync the group with another rest call:

 

POST -d '{"command":"run","utilCmdArgs":"config-sync to-group FOO-BAR-LB"}'

 

Then I check sync status again to confirm that the sync took place. I haven't found another way to get this group name programmatically, but I'm not an f5 admin.