Merge BIG-IP Config Files

Problem this snippet solves: This script will take a local BIG-IP configuration file, upload it to the BIG-IP, merge it with the existing configuration, then clean up the iControl REST upload folder...
Updated Jun 06, 2023
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May 26, 2016
So my account is set up via active directory. I've authenticated with the F5 and received a token and tacked the X-F5-Auth-Token header on to all of these requests to get the upload and merge work as my own account. The delete works if I run the script above as the root admin account but as you can imagine, that's not an account that I'd like the script to run as. Ideally I want to create an LDAP account that has admin access which I can manage outside of the F5 and just have it run this script.