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teemee226
Altocumulus
AltocumulusI cannot activate the license on BIG-IP-NEXT
Hello everyone, I have a BIG-IP Central Manager virtual server on Vmware and set up a BIG-IP Instance . My system does not connect directly via the internet but points through a Proxy. When I activat...
Marcus-f5
Employee
Employeethe variable ts_api_url should resolve to product.apis.f5.com. Can your postman reach the web?
You could exchange the variable with this url in the request URI. This error seems to indicate your postman cannot reach our product.apis.f5.com
teemee226Altocumulus
AltocumulusMarcus-f5Hello, I want to ask you one more question. I tried pointing my Postman to the proxy and got the following error: unsupported content type "application/x-zip-compressed". I have researched and followed the instructions in the article https://my.f5.com/s/article/K000140125, but when following Postman, I receive an error 401: GATEWAY-00021:Missing Authorization header. Can you answer me more specifically about this Authorization part? Thank you very much.
- Marcus-f5
hmm, some guesswork... possibly because you are not carrying the CM login token with you in the request?
In the Authorization tab, do you have a variable for the CM token like {{bigip_next_cm_token}} ?
In case you are not aware, here is a well prepared postman collection on clouddocs:
https://clouddocs.f5.com/bigip-next/latest/_downloads/97786c6c678c239863323f200a105b6f/BIG-IP-Next-Postman-Collection-v20.2.1-4.15.68-0.0.1.zip
- teemee226
Marcus-f5 I don't know where I got the CM login token. Can you tell me where I can get it? And In the Authorization tab, which Auth Type should I choose to be able to verify? I also downloaded the collection and environment to Postman but only get this Missing Authorization header error. I hope you can help me fix this error.😥
- Marcus-f5
in the postman collection is a call "login to postman". When you execute this with the correct PW set in the variable you will receive the token. This will then be put into the bigip_next_cm_token variable and can be used in subsequent calls towards cm.