phpseclib to connect to pull data from an a10 load balancer - phpseclib

Question

I am building a remote API that is going to pull data from an A10 loadbalancer via SSH and serve it up to a web front-end in JSON format. I am preferable to the phpseclib library as I have used it for similar things but with other devices(rhel servers,cisco routers etc.). Here is the thing, A10 load balancers are serving up some command line syntax issues when I have tried phpseclib's $ssh->exec("show gslb service-ip");
I am not intricately schooled on A10 load balancer command line syntax to know exactly where to look for the issue.
I have also installed sshpass on my server to do some testing and it returns the same thing so I am not sure what the problem is as Google has turned up nothing. It may be an easy modification of the phpseclib ? a simple one liner hack? Help!
<?php
include_once("phpseclib/Net/SSH2.php");
$ssh = new Net_SSH2("<a10 load balancer ip>");
if(!$ssh->login("<username>","<password>")) {
echo 0;
} else {
echo "Pulling configuration...";
echo $ssh->exec("show gslb service-ip");
}
?>
Here is my return when i exec from command line
[root#<servername> php]# php controller.php
Pulling configuration...
/a10/bin/rimacli: invalid option -- c
[root#<servername> php]#
A google search for "/a10/bin/rimacli: invalid option -- c" doesnt come up with much as I am sure this is just an option/syntax command line thing that is rarely seen by A10 load balance users.
What is different about the SSH to an A10? HELP :)

Answer 1

Nevermind, it has an API available already :) Now just need to learn the methods. Example request:
[root#servername php]# curl -qk "https:///services/rest/V2/?method=authenticate&username=&password=&format=json"
{"session_id":"07d68e681102200700f1aea46574f7"}[root#servername php]#