Demystifying iControl REST Part 6: Token-Based Authentication
iControl REST. It’s iControl SOAP’s baby, brother, introduced back in TMOS version 11.4 as an early access feature but released fully in version 11.5.
Several articles on basic usage have been writ...
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Casey_Robertson
Nov 23, 2015Nimbostratus
Thanks for the article. Been working a lot with the REST API lately. We use it to automate node activities during code deployments and Microsoft update patching (Windows web servers). Running into a number of issues though. My patch process kicks off a number of Powershell jobs - ~25 or as high as 60. All of these jobs have code to get an F5 token, check if the server is a node, if so, disable it, drain connections and then re-enabled when done. Randomly I'm getting response timeouts and it's really impactful. I'm going to have to code around it by doing retries or aborting but we have tested and at the same time, we'll see slowness in the F5 management GUI. Any tips on optimizing or giving more resources and/or troubleshooting the REST endpoint? We are running 11.6. Thanks!