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rodolfosalgado_
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Jul 22, 2016

How BIG-IP Token/Authentication works ?

I'm unable to find anywhere here/documentation/articles anyone that could explain a little bit better the authentication token when you get the response from the Rest. I'm sending the POST to the R...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Apr 08, 2018

Got it. From 13.1.0, the maximum number of authentication tokens a non-admin user can obtain is limited to 100. The default life of a token is 30 min, so after that, you should be able to create a new token. It is recommended to reuse the token to avoid the error.