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Philip_Street_2's avatar
Philip_Street_2
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Feb 10, 2016

Read-only access to iControl REST API

We would like to have a scheduled background process to "scrape" configuration detail for all pools, nodes, monitors, virtual servers and iRules, into a structured format to be made available to our ...
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brad_11480's avatar
brad_11480
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Aug 01, 2017

Hoping that there is a guide to setup a read-only service account to use this iControl REST API. There seems to be an assumption that anyone using this needs to have all rights to do anything they wish.. Contrary-- we can't allow this to be free reign and need to be able to establish users with rights to access specific resources / modules.

 

For those of us with very limited background with REST API, any resource would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks..

 

  • Gym's avatar
    Gym
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    Feb 09, 2018

    I heartily agree with Brad. "REST-API Reader" should just be another role in the drop-down list when creating a new user. The need for various GUI and CLI roles is already recognised, and it applies to API as well.