F5 Python SDK: How to get virtual server availability?
Due to my limited Python and SDK experience I am finding it difficult to easily obtain the availability state of a virtual server. Given a 'virtual' object, what is the best/easiest way to return the value of that VS' 'Availability' state (offline, available, unknown, etc)? I can do the following: my_virtual = mgmt.tm.ltm.virtuals.virtual.load(name='some_virtual') stats = my_virtual.stats.load() Printing the stats.raw shows that there is a nested dictionary entry keyed 'status.availibityState' that appears to hold the value I'm looking for. Forgive my inexperience, but what is the easiest way to get the availability state of a virtual using the SDK? Perhaps a method I'm missing that retrieves the value above, or the value is easily obtained elsewhere. Appreciate any assitance!
Python script to request SSL-certificate at Sectigo and configure on F5
Hey everyone, I am trying to write a python script (using SDK: f5-common-python) that will generate a CSR, request an SSL Certificate by Sectigo and that will be automatically renewed through F5 when it expires. However, I have read the documentation (https://pythonhosted.org/f5-sdk/index.html) and can't quite find out how this can be achieved. Can anyone help?
F5 Python SDK - How to Get Profiles on a Virtual
I am using the F5 python SDK. It is awesome. Very useful. I am not, however, able to figure out how to access the subcollection of monitors attached to a virtual object. Any one have any idea how to do this? So far, I've gathered that you can see a link to the profiles via something like this: virtuals = srcf5.tm.ltm.virtuals.get_collection() for v in virtuals: profiles = v.profilesReference From there I was hoping I could do .get_collection(), but it does not have that method. I suppose I could go back to manually calling rest and parsing json for this one portion, but I feel like there is a way to do it in the SDK. Thanks!
Getting active pool member connections using Python
If I want to see all of the client connections connecting to a pool member from the CLI I can do something like a "show sys connection ss-server-addr 1.2.3.4". I can also do this using Postman mapping to ";, but I cannot figure out how to do this via Python. Using Python if I try to connect to "bigip.sys.raw" I do not see a module called "connection" or anything similar. Does anyone know how, or have some sample code on how to accomplish this? Thanks!iControl REST Python Requests module
While iControl REST is great and pretty robust given how much we use it. But I come to the forum today to see if anyone has any experience with the Python requests module and the underlying urllib3 module. When I do have problems with iControl its often with things like the following: Here I've increased the timeout to 5.0 seconds but still get read timeouts. HTTPSConnectionPool(host='redacted', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=5.0) I also often see this message and, no I don't have a proxy in front of the F5. However, I know the the F5 proxies the REST call (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 503 Service Unavailable', Thanks!
How to install a cert and a key through Python SDK
I am trying to install a cert and a key through Python SDK. BIG-IP Version: 12.1.2 First.. I had no problem with uploading certs and keys to F5's /var/config/rest/downloads/ folder. Now when I tried the following python code to install cert and key, I didn't see any error. key = bitip.tm.sys.file.ssl_keys.ssl_key.create(name='test', partition='Common', sourcePath='file:/var/config/rest/downloads/test.key') cert = bitip.tm.sys.file.ssl_certs.ssl_cert.create(name='test', partition='Common', sourcePath='file:/var/config/rest/downloads/test.crt') However when I logged on BIG-IP device and clicked a cert or key to see their actual content, I couldn't see any content. "No certificate" under certificate tab and an error message of "An error has occurred while trying to process your request." under Key tab. Does any one know what is causing this problem? Or is there any way I can troubleshoot this issue? Thank you.