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iControl REST 101: Getting Started

So you’ve heard of this iControl REST thing, have you? You’re excited at the idea of a simple, light weight API that allows you programmatic access via tried and true tmsh commands with which you may...
Published Feb 12, 2014
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Feb 13, 2014
your sed-fu is nice, but if you want to parse the json itself, a nice cli-trick is using "| python -m json.tool" instead.

 

 

jrahm@u1204lts:~$ curl -sk -u admin:admin https://192.168.101.5/mgmt/tm/ltm/node | python -m json.tool

 

{

 

"items": [

 

{

 

"address": "192.168.101.10",

 

"connectionLimit": 0,

 

"dynamicRatio": 1,

 

"fullPath": "/Common/192.168.101.10",

 

"generation": 1,

 

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