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Dietmar_Moltner's avatar
Dietmar_Moltner
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Nov 20, 2014

Permissions for iControl REST

Hi all,   we are currently doing some tests with iControl REST on 11.5.1. So far it looks very good, but it looks like that only users in role Administrator can use the REST interface, users in ro...
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Dietmar_Moltner
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Nov 20, 2014

Thank you for the response, will do that. One more idea would be to create a policy-secured virtual with AD groups to permit access to specific REST calls based on group membership. Is it possible to create a pool on the same appliance to point to the local iControl REST endpoint?

 

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Riley_Schuit_82
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Nov 20, 2014
ID 471136 will probably be linked just for being able to use remote auth with iControl REST. You should get an error if you configure a pool member for an self IP (error: "The requested pool member is already in use as a self IP address (x.x.x.x)") but I see there is no error for pointing to the mgmt address (I wouldn't do it)