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nlongFOG_264986
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Jun 16, 2016

powershell module f5-ltm new-f5session function how do I login to F5

Good afternoon; Relatively new to power shell, I'm trying log to one of our F5 devices using the new-F5session function in the F5-ltm module downloaded from the powershell gallery. Have successfully...
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Apr 02, 2020

Thought I would finally try this out, I have an irule to add to all VIPs using HTTPs. Seemed that would be easy and quick. I loaded the module, all went well and pretty slick. I needed to use -passthrough with the session to be able to run:

Get-VirtualServer | Where-Object {($_.Destination -like "*443*")} | Select-Object Name

with passthrough in my new-f5session command I was good.

Then a few minutes later I got this error and do not know how to get around it.

Invoke-F5RestMethod : "401 F5 Authorization Required: X-F5-Auth-Token does not exist.