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Prakash_Krishna's avatar
Prakash_Krishna
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May 13, 2014

Getting timeout exception when I try to acess the RestAPI but F5 LTM GUI behaves fine

Dear All,   When I try to connect with my F5 LTM device using Rest API call, I am getting the timeout ecxeption as below. But with F5 https GUI I am able to proceed and functioning properly. Is th...
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James_Thomson's avatar
James_Thomson
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May 13, 2014

The GUI and restAPI server-side pieces are separate. Can you let us know which version of BIG-IP you are running? Did you send credentials like this?

curl -sk -u admin:admin https://dev.rest.box/mgmt/tm/net/self/

If you're using 11.4, you'll need to enable the restAPI manually since it was early access. In 11.5, it should be there natively.

Have you seen these? https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/icontrol-rest-101-getting-started https://devcentral.f5.com/d/icontrol-rest-user-guide-version-1150?download=true