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Maneesh_72711
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Oct 04, 2018

Issue in making API calls to F5 LTM/GTM.

I am having issues in making API calls to F5 running ver12.1.2. Attached is the screenshot of the Authorization Failed error.   Can someone help, there are other F5's running same version 12.1.2 w...
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Lee_Sutcliffe
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Oct 04, 2018

If you haven't already authorised, you'll need to obtain the auth token and use the token in the X-F5-Auth-Token header in all subsequent requests. You could also use HTTP Basic auth an include the username and password in each requsts, but this isn't recommented

cURL example using X-F5-Auth-Token

curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-F5-Auth-Token: QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKL" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" "https://f5-ip-address/mgmt/tm/sys/connection?options=all-properties&ver=13.1.0.4"