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prole92_221949
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Sep 23, 2015

iControl REST Remote Authentication BIG-IP v12

I realize that there is already a question about this.   Supposedly the issue where the user is not able to use iControl REST API using remote authentication was fixed in BIG-IP v12. I have tried...
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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