Unable to set a custom parent for a monitor

[ghost]

Hi,

Seems I am unable to set a custom parent for a monitor. I get the following error:

bigip_ltm_monitor.MON_HTTP_DP_EVAL_CHILD: parent must be one of /Common/http, /Common/https, /Common/icmp, /Common/gateway-icmp, /Common/tcp-half-open,  or /Common/tcp

Can this restriction be relaxed?

Regards,

Dan

[scshitole]

@dpeachey can you please give the example TF so I can test and fix it?

[scshitole]

@dpeachey it is tied to the API you cannot have custom parent only these are possible

[soumik612]

@scshitole ,
What we basically need is,

1. Creating a custom Monitor "HC4_HTTP_EVAL_PARENT", which inherits parameters from a default monitor, say "http".
2. Creating custom monitor "HC4_HTTP_EVAL", which inherits parameters from HM "A-PARENT".

I have added the API calls below for your reference.

Parent - "HC4_HTTP_EVAL_PARENT" :
{"manualResume" : "disabled","adaptiveLimit" : 200,"name" : "HC4_HTTP_EVAL_PARENT","defaultsFrom" : "/Common/http","upInterval" : 0,"kind" : "tm:ltm:monitor:http:httpstate","ipDscp" : 0,"generation" : 0,"adaptiveDivergenceValue" : 25,"adaptive" : "disabled","adaptiveDivergenceType" : "relative","timeout" : 16,"interval" : 5,"destination" : ":","transparent" : "disabled","reverse" : "disabled","timeUntilUp" : 60,"description" : "Custom Parent Monitor","send" : "GET /\r\n","fullPath" : "HC4_HTTP_EVAL_PARENT"}

Child - "HC4_HTTP_EVAL" :

{"generation" : 0,"adaptiveSamplingTimespan" : 300,"fullPath" : "HC4_HTTP_EVAL","send" : "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: test\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n","timeout" : 16,"name" : "HC4_HTTP_EVAL","adaptive" : "disabled","ipDscp" : 0,"recv" : "HTTP/1.1 200 OK","adaptiveLimit" : 200,"destination" : ":","reverse" : "disabled","timeUntilUp" : 0,"transparent" : "disabled","interval" : 5,"upInterval" : 0,"manualResume" : "disabled","defaultsFrom" : "/Common/HC4_HTTP_EVAL_PARENT"}

[soumik612]

@scshitole ,
The issue still persists. I tried using both parameter "defaults_from" and "parent". However TF overrides/ignores the "default_from" parameters.

Example resource config:

resource "bigip_ltm_monitor" "MON_HTTP_PARENT" {
name = "/Common/MON_HTTP_PARENT"
parent = "/Common/http"
send = "GET /\r\n"
reverse = "disabled"
interval = 5
}

resource "bigip_ltm_monitor" "MON_TEST" {
name = "/Common/MON_TEST_HTTP"
defaults_from = "${bigip_ltm_monitor.MON_HTTP_PARENT.name}"
parent = "/Common/http"
send = "GET /\r\n"
receive = ""
destination = "*:8008"
reverse = "disabled"
}

[RavinderReddyF5]

closing this issue, please reopen new issue if anything needs attention