mgmt shared settings api-status availability¶

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NAME
availability - Configures the accessibility of the elements that have one of the specified API lifecycle
states.

MODULE
mgmt shared settings api-status

SYNTAX
Configure the availability component within the mgmt shared settings api-status module using the syntax shown
in the following sections.

MODIFY
modify availability
options:
deprecatedApiAllowed [true | false]
earlyAccessApiAllowed [true | false]
testOnlyApiAllowed [true | false]

DISPLAY
list availability
options:
deprecatedApiAllowed
earlyAccessApiAllowed
testOnlyApiAllowed

DESCRIPTION
There are six F5 API lifecycle states namely: internal, testOnly, earlyAccess, generalAccess, deprecated,
noStatus. These states are described at the end of this page. For the commands, command properties in
deprecated, earlyAccess and testOnly states the availability can be configured by the user.

The availability settings indicate if the commands or properties within a command are accessible to the user.
For example: if the deprecatedApiAllowed property is set to false; then it implies that the commands and
properties with deprecated status are not available to user. i.e. These elements will not be available for
create, modify, delete commands. For list action, the elements will not displayed at the command line.

Warnings will be generated at stderr and /var/log/ltm based on the
mgmt::shared::settings::api-status::log::resource and resource-property settings.

If these settings are modified in the tmsh interactive mode then, the user has to exit the tmsh interactive
mode and re-enter for the settings to be effective.

OPTIONS
deprecatedApiAllowed
Determines the accessibility of commands, properties in deprecated state. The default value is true.

earlyAccessApiAllowed
Determines the accessibility of commands, properties in earlyAccess state. The default value is true.

testOnlyApiAllowed
Determines the accessibility of commands, properties in testOnly state. The default value is false.

The remaining properties are read-only and are not user modifiable.

F5 API lifecycle policy
The F5 API lifecycle consists of five states, namely: internal, testOnly, earlyAccess, generalAccess,
deprecated, noStatus. These states can be described as follows:

internal
Internal routing not exposed through public interface

testOnly
Enabled only when test variable configured. Used internally for test cases that require special-case
workers to complete functional testing for features not exposed in public API.

earlyAccess
Experimental and susceptible to change in future releases. Used for new features that haven't had time to
be solidified.

generalAccess
API that satisfies the API general access release policy.

deprecated
Resource still exists in the API but indicates that there is an preferred alternative or that it may be
removed in the future based on deprecation policy.

noStatus
For backward compatibility for APIs not categorized. At some point this status will be disallowed and
build time break will occur if resource not categorized with appropriate flag.

In the write-up above the terms command, command::properties are used in place of API to describe the behavior
of the mgmt::shared::settings::api-status::availability settings.

SEE ALSO
mgmt shared settings api-status log resource, mgmt shared setting api-status log resource-property

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