Programmatically authenticate with F5 VPN

[BWS-Dev]

I have a question regarding a project I have that requires me to use the F5 VPN. 

In short, we have the following:  

1. a PHP application on a server (Digital Ocean)
• this application needs to receive data updates every 30m from an external data source
  
  
2. a database on a server managed by a different source (external to both our team and environments)
• to access this DB, we must first sign into the F5 VPN

What I'm looking for is a manner in which we can programmatically auth with F5 VPN so we can achieve a data pull programmatically every 30m per our requirements.

Any insight is greatly appreciated

[buulam]

@BWS-Dev the auth is interactive when using the F5 VPN aspect so it's not something very automatable. That licensing would allow for OAuth configuration but it doesn't sound like you have administrative control?

[BWS-Dev]

@buulam thanks for your reply!

I am not an admin, no...so if I was to inform the admin to look into OAUTH configuration for the account and I could go that route, yea? Is there a quick link or a guide I can share with them to check or set this up? 

many thanks!

[buulam · Accepted solution]

Yes, so you could start them here: https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/manuals/product/apm-authentication-sso-13-1-0/3...

And then likely looking into the following chapters for setting up as a Resource Server to authN for an API

[BWS-Dev]

Thank you @buulam - I'll share this and hopefully it will be what they're able to provide me with!