F5 BIG-IP iControl REST (Mgmt)
A partial contract for the BIG-IP iControl REST management tree — 10 paths under /mgmt/tm/ and /mgmt/shared/ covering token login, virtual servers, pools, pool members, nodes, HTTP profiles and system version. iControl REST addresses the whole TMSH-addressable configuration tree, so this covers a small fraction of the real surface; F5 publishes no complete OpenAPI for it.
F5 BIG-IP iControl REST (Mgmt) is one of 51 APIs that F5 publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Mgmt and BIG-IP. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 21 operations across 10 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{bigip}.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
F5 BIG-IP iControl REST (Mgmt) declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (Basic).
An API key is passed in the header as X-F5-Auth-Token (Token).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Basic— HTTP Basic auth using a BIG-IP administrative user.Token— Token obtained from /mgmt/shared/authn/login.
Paths & Operations 21
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 21 operations — 3 DELETE, 9 GET, 2 PATCH, 5 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Virtual (6 properties), Pool (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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