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KeyClacker
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Feb 28, 2022

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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Okay, guys. I think I am close to the Power-Shell-based solution

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May 11, 2023

Unfortunately F5 built in a byte limit on the API.  Their own Python module is built around this limitation and handles chunking up the download in to pieces and streaming it to a file.  Powershell cannot do this by some  magic and it would require a lot of scaffolding.  

I eventually gave up and used the Posh-SSH module to just SCP the UCS archive off of the appliance and to a network share.