Demystifying iControl REST Part 6: Token-Based Authentication

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.