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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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IsaacUribe_1916
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Mar 24, 2016

On 11.6 I was able to do this by creating an "audit" account and then assigning permissions to the REsT API with:

 

curl -k -u admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PATCH https://<353417d8-11ab-45f3-9b2b-a8a3284b985a>/mgmt/shared/authz/roles/iControl_REST_API_User -d '{ "userReferences":[{"link":"<2cd6a666-2166-499a-b7f4-e65d77a45cd7 link filter-list-container-d03f4d3d-e890-462a-9ae1-49e301f7c2c6 clear-filters-d03f4d3d-e890-462a-9ae1-49e301f7c2c6 53576987-3cae-4d15-97dc-3d6a03568049>"}] }'

 

It is documented on the "icontrol-rest-user-11-6-0_15.pdf" manual on the "About iControl and RBAC for user accounts" section.