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Interact with F5 BIG-IP via the iControl REST API

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ASM → Terminate Vulnerability Assessment

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Summary

Stops an in-progress ASM vulnerability assessment scan for a given policy by POSTing to the BIG-IP iControl REST endpoint /mgmt/tm/asm/tasks/terminate-vulnerability-assessment.

Inputs

  • Policy Reference Link (required) — Self-link of the ASM policy whose scan should be terminated (e.g. https://localhost/mgmt/tm/asm/policies/). Sent in the body as policyReference: {"link": }.
  • Request Options — Optional node settings: batching (items per batch, interval in ms), ignore SSL issues, HTTP proxy, and request timeout in ms (default 10000).

Output shape

One item per input item containing the parsed JSON response from the BIG-IP. This is typically an ASM task object that can be polled later.

The source does not show the response shape, so the exact fields are not confirmed. The request is likely asynchronous, so use the ASM 'Check Task Status' operation with task type 'terminate-vulnerability-assessment' and the returned task ID to confirm completion. Authentication and host come from the bigIpF5Api credential.

Examples

Example 1: Cancel a scan that is running too long against a production policy.

Resource: ASM; Operation: Terminate Vulnerability Assessment; Policy Reference Link: https://localhost/mgmt/tm/asm/policies/vagoQLF6uOoBKvS8h3C19w

Example 2: Terminate scans for many policies and avoid overloading the device.

Policy Reference Link set by expression from incoming items; Request Options > Batching: 5 items per batch, 2000 ms interval

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