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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Mar 22, 2016
Hi ekaleido - there is a default timeout of I think 10 or 15 minutes? Can't recall. You can pass a timeout value in the JSON in the GET. I've only done it doing REST methods via Powershell but I will post the code so you can see. I do some work with our F5 that takes place over several hours (patching and moving servers in and out of pools) so I grab one token with a very long timeout - I' doing 6 hours. In my experience doing frequent calls to the REST API for tokens can be buggy so the less calls the better for me.