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KeyClacker's avatar
KeyClacker
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4 years ago

Powershell: Invoke-RESTmethod on /mgmt/tm/sys/ucs (403) Forbidden error

I'm fairly experienced with Powershell and have used the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet, and vendor documentation, to automate some things before.  I've just inherited management of an HA pair of F5 BIG-IP...
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SamCo's avatar
SamCo
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4 years ago

Did you try to make the same POST request with a different UCS name ?

Maybe there is already an existing one on your box with the same name, in that case you request could be blocked to avoid to override it.

xuwen's avatar
xuwen
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4 years ago

use datetime to rename format ucs filename and make it not be the same

from datetime import datetime

'/var/local/ucs/test_{}.ucs'.format(datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))