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ashish_solanki
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Nov 24, 2020

Accessing F5 via Postman

Hi All,   I am trying to access my production F5 device via Postman. When sending a GET request "https://<URL>" getting 200 OK however when I'm trying to get pool details by sending GET request t...
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crodriguez
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Nov 24, 2020

My understanding is that you have to authenticate to the BIG-IP system as an admin (or other user authorized to make API calls) before you can issue configuration commands. (Similarly to the way you have to log into the BIG-IP system in order to configure it.) There is a lab on F5 CloudDocs that has some examples of using Postman with BIG-IP, including how to authenticate. Hopefully that will give you what you need to get going.

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    ashish_solanki
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    Nov 28, 2020

    Hi Crodriguez,

     

    Thanks for your reply, it worked in my LAB environment.

    Can you help me, how to create Virtual server, pool and node via POSTMAN