aXAPI: slb.template.client_ssl.create

Keepcase · October 2012

Hey all,

I was wondering if someone could lend a hand in regards to how to properly put together a request using python over aXAPI using the slb.template.client_ssl.create method.

I was trying to setup the parameters but I'm getting confused using the Url-encode options and how to properly set the array, I was doing the following but I keep getting invalid parameters.


config = {}
config['name'] = 'template1'
config['key_name'] = 'key1.key'
config['cert_name'] = 'cert1.crt'
config['cipher_list'] = 'cipher1%02cipher2'
config['cipher1'] = 'name%03TLS1_RSA_EXPORT1024_RC4_56_SHA'
config['cipher2'] = 'name%03TLS1_RSA_EXPORT1024_RC4_56_MD5'

myClass(host,sid,json.dumps(config))

I keep getting the following error:


response status="fail" error code="1003" msg="Invalid parameters

Any help would be greatly appreciated! (I have a feeling I'm not passing this in properly but I will keep trying while checking back here)

JackofallTrades · October 2012

Hello Keepcase,

So depending on the code version you are running json may not be supported for the method. In that case you have to encode the parameters. A stream dump looks like this:


POST /services/rest/V2/?session_id=0e8e80eeea436a771d7741530a3a35&method=slb.template.client_ssl.create HTTP/1.0

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Content-Length: 70

Host: 172.21.21.254

User-Agent: Python-urllib/1.17



key_name=MyCertificateTest&name=myTemplate&cert_name=MyCertificateTestHTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Type: application/xml

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:51:31 GMT

Expires: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 00:00:00 GMT

Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:51:31 GMT

Pragma: no-cache

Content-Length: 72

Server: A10WS/1.00

Working sample code looks like:


class template(object):
    @classmethod
    def clientSSL(cls, host, sid, configuration):
        method = "method=slb.template.client_ssl.create"
        data = req.postXML(host, method, sid, configuration)
        return data
    
host = "172.21.21.254"
username = 'admin'
password = 'a10'
tempName = "myTemplate"
cert = "MyCertificateTest"
key = "MyCertificateTest"
mytemplate = urllib.urlencode({
                                        'name': tempName,
                                        'cert_name': cert,
                                        'key_name': key
                                        })
sid = auth.sessionID(host, username, password)
t = template.clientSSL(host, sid, mytemplate)
auth.sessionClose(host, sid)

Thanks for taking advantage of the API.

Keepcase · October 2012

I made the changes and it's working beautifully!
Let's see what else I can do with this API

Any particular methods you find useful that might not necessarily be used that often?
I'm thinking to work on stats next; I was going to start parsing the fetchAllStatistics methods for servers and virtual_servers next

I've just been playing around with servers, service_groups, virtual_servers and SSL.

Thanks again! I'll keep you posted

JackofallTrades · October 2012

You know technology is there to solve business problems... So the methods that are useful to me are the ones that solve the business problem....

Cheers

aXAPI: slb.template.client_ssl.create

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