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wuench_99164
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Jul 28, 2016
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BIG-IQ Centralized Managment 5.0 - Is rest-proxy available?

Testing 5.0 in our lab in preparation to upgrade and I can't seem to get the rest-proxy URLs to work. Is this feature available? If so do you see any issues with the URL below? xxxx = device's UUI...
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    wuench_99164
    Aug 04, 2016

    This does work in 5.0, found the answer in the Bigiq 4.5 REST API Reference. You have to issue a PATCH call to the device URL on the BigIQ to enable it.

     

    PATCH to https://localhost/mgmt/shared/resolver/device-groups//devices/device-id> { "properties":{ "isRestProxyEnabled":true, } }

     

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StephanManthey
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Feb 08, 2018

We did some tests with BIG-IQ v5.3 as REST API proxy using the role based access schema (RBAC) to limit the priviledges of the API user.

 

Tests went pretty well.

 

The role based access for the REST API user now seems to be broken in BIG-IQ v5.4 (and HF1). It´s always required to provide Admin priviledges to the API user.

 

Otherwise you will be prompted with a JSON body containing a "500 - internal server error" message.

 

Tests with v5.4 were done on based on temp licenses. That´s why I wasnt able to open a service request with the F5 support team yet.