Demystifying iControl REST Part 1 - Understanding the request URI

iControl REST. It’s iControl SOAP’s baby brother, introduced back in TMOS version 11.4 as an early access feature but was released fully in version 11.5.  Several articles on basic usage h...
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Nov 29, 2023

JRahm 

Thanks for this post. It's really helpful. 

I write a python script to add a new SNMP server to the "allowed address" in F5 LTM snmp configuration. It's using REST API to update 'client allow list' in LTM.

The correct endpoint is used 'x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/sys/snmp' and my new snmp server is successfully added using requests.put method.

However, I noticed that after this, the 'contact info' and 'machine location' both change to below. This is definitely not in my script. I wonder why this is happening?

"sysContact": "Customer Name <admin@customer.com>",
"sysLocation": "Network Closet 1",