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rsingh1988_3382
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Dec 14, 2017

iControlRest curl API call fails

Hi All I am new to iControlRest API and am trying to learn it. I am stuck at very first step i believe and not able to progress further. I am using admin credential here but I am getting http erro...
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    rsingh1988_3382
    Jan 03, 2018

    Thank you for the comment but I found the problem and commenting here as it may help beginners like me. Since I had special characters in my admin password curl wasn't accepting them hence i send credentail as a key value pair in string format.

    curl -k -u 'admin:xys@3a' -X GET https://bigipf5/mgmt/ltm

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Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Dec 14, 2017

Hi there,

First thing first: Can you try accessing the box via ssh (tmsh/bash) and Configuration Utility (GUI)? If they do not work, check if the password is correct.

Sometimes, restarting the iControl REST processes may help. Run 

tmsh restart sys service restjavad
(if you are running BIG-IP 11.x, run also 
tmsh restart sys service icrd
).