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JCMATTOS_41723's avatar
JCMATTOS_41723
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Oct 31, 2016

iControlREST access to F5 ltm "401 Authorization Failed"

We have 11.6.0 HF1 on our test box and trying to run a icontrolREST against our box but getting an 401 error. We have a local account with "Admin" rights and tmsh console access but we still get a 40...
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Vijay_E's avatar
Vijay_E
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Oct 31, 2016

Are you using token authentication as noted here ?

 

If you want to use username/password without token authentication, you need to be in 12.x code version.