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ashu_aggarwal1
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Dec 06, 2022

BIG iQ discovery issues with error Unauthorized 401

I am experiencing discover issue while trying to add the F5 LTM guest to BIG IQ, Its throwing error as "check credentials: Unauthorized(401)" even though the credentials are correct.The guests are ru...
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Paulius
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Dec 07, 2022

Have you confirmed that the request from the BIG-IQ is making it to the BIG-IP in question? Are you 100% certain that they are the correct credentials for the admin user of the BIG-IP? You should be able to perform a tcpdump on the BIG-IP on the interface that the BIG-IQ is connecting to so you can validate the request is making it to the BIG-IP. You should also be able to validate the user attempted to log into the BIG-IP by checking the audit logs.