Demystifying iControl REST Part 5: Transferring Files

 iControl REST. It’s iControl SOAP’s baby, brother, introduced back in TMOS version 11.4 as an early access feature but released fully in version 11.5. Several articles on basic usage have been wri...
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Jan 03, 2018

@Jason

 

I tried it out and got an error

 

For the simple test, I placed a key file under/var/config/rest/downloads/mynew_key.key and then made the following call from Windows IDLE(3.6.2):

 

 

from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot
import requests
import sys
import os

requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()

mr = ManagementRoot('x.x.x.x', 'admin', 'admin')

key = mr.tm.sys.file.ssl_keys.ssl_key.create(name='MyNewkey', partition='Common', sourcePath='/var/config/rest/downloads/mynew_key.key')

Then I got the following error.

 

 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\xyz\Documents\Python Practice\ssl cert key file upload.py", line 23, in 
    key = mr.tm.sys.file.ssl_keys.ssl_key.create(name='MyNewkey', partition='Common', sourcePath='/var/config/rest/downloads/mynew_key.key')
  File "C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\f5\bigip\resource.py", line 974, in create
    return self._create(**kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\f5\bigip\resource.py", line 941, in _create
    response = session.post(_create_uri, json=kwargs, **requests_params)
  File "C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\icontrol\session.py", line 272, in wrapper
    raise iControlUnexpectedHTTPError(error_message, response=response)
icontrol.exceptions.iControlUnexpectedHTTPError: 400 Unexpected Error: Bad Request for uri: https://x.x.x.x:443/mgmt/tm/sys/file/ssl-key/
Text: '{"code":400,"message":"Failed! exit_code (3).\\n","errorStack":[],"apiError":26214401}'

any idea?