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Wes_98712
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Oct 15, 2014

iControl Rest and Remote Authentication

Has anyone been successful in implementing remote authentication and iControl Rest? We have a case open with F5 support. Basically the remote authenticated user (in this case is an Active Directory a...
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Stefan_Dorobek_
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Oct 28, 2015

Hey everyone,

 

If someone facing this problems, there is an workaround in version 12.

 

You need to create the User first local on the device, after that you can use that user to make REST call's just with basic auth. So you need no Post to the login or/and an login reference.

 

There is a dokumentation with authentication token, but I don't managed to get this to work on an bigip (https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/icontrol.authentication_with_the_f5_rest_api.ashx) maybe it's only for bigiq.

 

Regards Stefan

 

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Stefan_Dorobek_
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Oct 28, 2015
I thought also that this should work with version 12 "out-of-the-box", but my testing showed something else. The workaround I found was to create the User localy (the password ist still managed by Radius or ldap) and then the Rest API worked. Due the fact that I use an technical User for the Scripts this work fine for me. Regards