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Feb 28, 2022

Powershell: Invoke-RESTmethod on /mgmt/tm/sys/ucs (403) Forbidden error

I'm fairly experienced with Powershell and have used the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet, and vendor documentation, to automate some things before.  I've just inherited management of an HA pair of F5 BIG-IP...
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Mar 01, 2022

quick update before going in to a meeting.

I changed how i'm generating the $Body variable to just be a here-string with straight up json in it, instead of a hashtable i convert to json, and the request worked. 

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Mar 01, 2022

omg...it wasn't even that. It was case.  Even though Powershell is case insensitive I'm so used to doing camel case everywhere that I did "Command" and "Name" instead of "command" and "name" for my json body.

Now to figure out how to download a ucs....