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!
Object path for list of partitions in python SDK
Hi all, I'm trying to get the list of partitions of a BigIP using the f5-Python-SDK. In tmsh, the objects are located under auth/partition, so e.g. "tmsh list auth partition" will list the according configuration. This is also reflected in iControl REST. Using curl, I can get that list of partitions by using the path /mgmt/tm/auth/partition as follows: $ curl -sk -u admin:xxxxxxxxxxxx https://my_bigip/mgmt/tm/auth/partition | python -mjson.tool { "items": [ { "defaultRouteDomain": 0, "description": "Repository for system objects and shared objects.", "fullPath": "Common", "generation": 1, "kind": "tm:auth:partition:partitionstate", "name": "Common", "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/auth/partition/Common?ver=11.6.0" }, { "defaultRouteDomain": 123, "fullPath": "my_partition1", "generation": 1, "kind": "tm:auth:partition:partitionstate", "name": "my_partition1", "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/auth/partition/my_partition1?ver=11.6.0" }, { "defaultRouteDomain": 456, "fullPath": "my_partition2", "generation": 1, "kind": "tm:auth:partition:partitionstate", "name": "my_partition2", "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/auth/partition/my_partition1?ver=11.6.0" }, ], "kind": "tm:auth:partition:partitioncollectionstate", "selfLink": "https://localhost/mgmt/tm/auth/partition?ver=11.6.0" } However, when trying to adopt that using the python SDK, I do not get the same results: >>> from f5.bigip import BigIP >>> session = BigIP('1.2.3.4', 'admin', 'xxxxxxxxxxxx') >>> for partition in session.auth.partitions.get_collection(): ... print partition.name ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/f5_sdk-0.1.5-py2.7.egg/f5/bigip/mixins.py", line 82, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError(error_message) AttributeError: '' object has no attribute 'auth' So, .auth.partitions (or .auth generally) does not seem to be the right entry point. Does anybody know: if there is a comprehensive list of mappings of tmsh / iControl REST / python SDK paths? whether the whole auth tree is still missing in the python modules and will be added later? what is the right way to get a list of partitions using the f5-python-SDK? Any help is appreciated. Many thanks in advance! Best regards MartinHow to check existing persistence profiles with iControl REST python SDK?
First of all: please excuse possibly wrong wording in terms of coding terminology, I'm a network engineer trying to get into devops and to make use of provided tools, not a full-time programmer. That being said, I'm trying to use the iControl REST python SDK in order to check whether a persistence profile exists on a remote BigIP. But I cannot find out which function to call for that. I understand that persistences, as well as other collections, such as monitors, are organized in subcollections, depending on their type. When looking at /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/f5/bigip/tm/ltm/persistence.py, I see that the following subcollections are defined: self._meta_data['allowed_lazy_attributes'] = [ Source_Addrs, Hashs, Sips, Ssls, Dest_Addrs, Msrdps, Cookies, Universals ] So, I thought I could for example check for the existence of a source_address persistence profile named "persist_src_test" with the following calls: bash-4.3 python Python 2.7.11 (default, Jan 23 2016, 12:34:14) [GCC 5.3.0] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from f5.bigip import BigIP,mixins >>> session = BigIP('10.1.1.100', 'admin', 'f5') >>> if session.ltm.persistences.source_addrs.exists(name='persist_src_test', partition='Common'): ... print 'exists' ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/f5/bigip/mixins.py", line 93, in __getattr__ raise LazyAttributesRequired(error_message) f5.bigip.mixins.LazyAttributesRequired: ('"allowed_lazy_attributes" not in', 'container._meta_data for class Source_Addrs') For me as a novice in terms of programming, it appears that the Source_Addrs class in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/f5/bigip/tm/ltm/persistence.py is of the wrong type for using the exists() method. It needs to be of type "resource", but it is of type "collection". There is no according class of type "resource" defined. When comparing /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/f5/bigip/tm/ltm/monitor.py to that, I see that for example http is defined as a collection (with an 's' appended) AND as a resource: class Https(Collection): """BIG-IP® Http monitor collection.""" def __init__(self, monitor): super(Https, self).__init__(monitor) self._meta_data['allowed_lazy_attributes'] = [Http] self._meta_data['attribute_registry'] =\ {'tm:ltm:monitor:http:httpstate': Http} [...] class Http(UpdateMonitorMixin, Resource): """BIG-IP® Http monitor resource.""" def __init__(self, https): super(Http, self).__init__(https) self._meta_data['required_json_kind'] =\ 'tm:ltm:monitor:http:httpstate' There, I can do the the same thing I tried with peristences above successfully (although it took me some time to figure out where to append some 's' characters and where not): >>> if session.ltm.monitor.https.http.exists(name='monitor_http_test', partition='Common'): ... print 'exists' ... else: ... print 'does not exist' ... does not exist When looking again at /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/f5/bigip/tm/ltm/persistence.py, the only hint for a "Source_Addr" resource I can find is commented out: class Source_Addrs(Collection): '''A Collection concrete subclass docstring.''' def __init__(self, persistence): '''Auto generated constructor.''' super(Source_Addrs, self).__init__(persistence) self._meta_data['allowed_lazy_attributes'] = [Source_Addr] self._meta_data['attribute_registry'] =\ {u'tm:ltm:persistence:source-addr:source-addrstate': Source_Addr} self._meta_data['template_generated'] = True So, it seems to me that this one is not yet finished. Has anybody found another way of polling the available persistence profiles using this SDK? I thought about cycling through the list of all persistence profiles by doing the following, but this also does not seem to work: >>> for pers in session.ltm.persistences.source_addrs.get_collection(): ... print pers.name ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/f5/bigip/resource.py", line 554, in get_collection if kind in self._meta_data['attribute_registry']: KeyError: 'attribute_registry' So, I'm really stuck here. Can anybody point out: If I'm doing anything wrong here? If the persistence classes really are not finished yet (and if so, whether there is any hint when they will be)? If there is any other way of getting a list of persistence profiles being present on the system by using the python SDK? Any hint is appreciated! Many thanks in advance! Best regards Martin PS: I'm using the development branch of the SDK available at https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-common-python which I assume is the latest publicly available version.How to get all servers in a GTM pool (Python f5-sdk)
I am sure this is quite simple but I can't find reference to this in documentation. pool = mgmt.tm.gtm.pools.a_s.a.load(name='poolname') Once i've loaded it, how can I see what servers are in this pool and get their name(s)? I would also like to do the same with wideips, gather all pools in each one to see if a particular pool is being used by it. (Version 12)
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!
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!
Bug with bigsuds/suds and logging
So I have added bigsuds to my python environment, and whenever I run commands against my F5 test instance I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 851, in emit msg = self.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 724, in format return fmt.format(record) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 464, in format record.message = record.getMessage() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 328, in getMessage msg = msg % self.args File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/suds/sax/document.py", line 58, in __str__ return unicode(self).encode('utf-8') File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/suds/sax/document.py", line 61, in __unicode__ return self.str() File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/suds/sax/document.py", line 48, in str s.append(self.root().str()) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'str' Logged from file core.py, line 73 It looks to me like some sort of Logging is failing, but I haven't found a way of quieting this error, or catching it and doing something about it. Everything works fine; the command completes, and the output/results are as expected. Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas how to work with this?ansible missing json module on big IP: how to install?
Hi all. I'm curently trying to get ansible running and returning data from my Big IPs (all running 11.6.0 HF5). Since there are some prebuild f5 functions coming with ansible out of the box, I was under the impression that this was easy going, but it seems I was wrong... While the raw module works properly after preparing proper SSL keys and hosts file for ansible, all the f5 specific and other modules (such as file) fail executing on the big IPs because of a missing json module: $ ansible f5-test-LBs -m bigip_facts lb-lbtest1 | FAILED >> { "failed": true, "msg": "Error: ansible requires a json module, none found!", "parsed": false } After a bit of googling, I found out that installing the simplejson python module on the target platform will resolve this issue. Hence, I downloaded a copy of simplejson for python 2.4 and, after a bit of struggling around, succeded in installing it on the big IP. The package is now located in /var/lib/python2.4/site-packages. I added this directory to $PYTHONPATH and python itself is able to load the module when being exectuted directly on the big IP: [root@lb-LBTEST1:/S1-green-P:Standby:In Sync] config echo $PYTHONPATH /var/lib/python2.4/:/var/lib/python2.4/site-packages/:/usr/lib/python2.4/:/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ [root@lb-LBTEST1:/S1-green-P:Standby:In Sync] config cd /var/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ [root@lb-LBTEST1:/S1-green-P:Standby:In Sync] site-packages ls easy-install.pth setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg setuptools.pth **simplejson-2.1.0-py2.4.egg** site.py site.pyc [root@lb-LBTEST1:/S1-green-P:Standby:In Sync] site-packages python -i Python 2.4.3 (1, Aug 11 2014, 20:44:34) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import simplejson >>> simplejson.__name__ 'simplejson' >>> simplejson.__version__ '2.1.0rc3' Unfortunately, the error with ansible still persists the same way as before. Is anybody here successfully using ansible to manage their Big IPs? If so, can you point out what steps you have taken in order to make it running? Is there any general recommendation for installing custom python modules on the Big IP? Any hint is welcome! Thanks in advance.
