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May 07, 2020Nimbostratus
iControl Authentication Token time-out for health monitor API Call
Hi Guys,
I want to collect health status about F5 virtual servers through an API Proxy or 3rd party tools using the HTTP request below.
it works but only temporarily since the X-F5-Auth-Token expires after a short time. is there a way this token can stay forever? this method isn't at all practical with a temporary token and we shouldn't have the user/pass on 3rd party tools. but if we have to do it another way, can we replace x-f5-auth-token with a low-priv read-only username and password pair? how would the http request look like?
thanks in advance
GET https://172.16.45.75/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/Splunk-VS/stats HTTP/1.1
X-F5-Auth-Token: JJ3LFIRJALD44GH3SX6QK4TDVE
Host: 172.16.45.75
Connection: close