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 13, 2014
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Aug 02, 2016

Since there's a little collection of one-liners, here's what the json parsing looks like in php ... you could use var_dump() instead of print_r(), or of course assign it to a variable and then do whatever to it -

 

curl -sk -u admin:admin "https://x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/ltm" | php -r 'print_r(json_decode(stream_get_contents(STDIN)));'