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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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Nov 23, 2015
Hi Casey, that's a good question. Do you know if the timeouts are occurring on token acquisition or in the use of the token? If the former, you might share the token across jobs (assuming credentials are the same.) Any helpful errors in /var/log/restjavad.0.log?