Getting Started with the f5-common-python SDK

If you have dabbled with python and iControl over the years, you might be familiar with some of my other “Getting Stared with …” articles on python libraries. I started my last, on Bigsuds, this way:...
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Jul 05, 2019

Hi Jason,

 

A question about the f5-sdk and the REST api in general. Is it possible with the f5-sdk to get the raw output of the tmsh commands back as a json string/object?

 

From the point of view of change validation, it can be a requirement that we explicitly show the output of the config before a change and the output after the change and the differences.

 

For example if would be nice to be able to get an objects configuration back as a json object as this would allow to compare and document the differences, if the action was to replace the profile on a a virtual server this would make it easy to compare the before and after to validate only the documented change happened.

 

This also documents the original config in the case where the change has to be reversed due to issues etc.