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F5 makes the BIG-IP application delivery controller (ADC). The BIG-IPs features are concerned with making applications run fast, highly-available, and secure. Better known for its L7 (HTTP) load-balancing functionality, F5 also delivers application (Layer 7) security and resilience services in both hardware and software form-factors.

The tag is for questions related to products by F5 Networks.

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Ansible module bigip_pool_member for BIGIP always returning "Changed" status

I am trying to add pool members to a bigip pool using bigip_pool_member. Tested on ansible version 2.5 and 2.6 Result - Returns changed ALWAYS, even when it is not making any changes. Involcation command: ansible-playbook -i test_inventory…
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Calling .Net REST service behind an F5 load balancer from powershell returns 401

I have an HTTPS .NET core REST web service deployed on 2 servers which are hosted behind an F5 load balancer. When I invoke a REST method using powershell (Invoke-RestMethod with option -UseDefaultCredentials) directly on one of the servers I…
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Ansible playbook doesn't pickup host variables

I am trying to run a playbook which execute against variables stored in the host_vars. This is the solution layout: /host_vars/f5-test /inventory/hosts /playbook.yml The content of the files are as…
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F5 BIG-IP: Log Profile disabled

Currently I'm setting up a F5 BIG-IP instance and I'm trying to harden the system security-wise. On one virtual server I noticed that "Log Profile" was set to "disabled". What does this exactly mean? Does this mean that absolutely no (security)…
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Route to request via F5 or via zuul/Eureka/Ribbon

I have a few services in my environment , request to which are proxied via ZUUL. We have 2 each instances each of ZUUL, Eureka and each of the downstream services for scalability and failover. For a composite service, we lookup the eureka registry…
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F5 integration on ansible

Until now, I used the core module of Ansible. Now I would play also with Extra Module. Let's say that I want to use on my playbook: bigip_partition. I've seen that it is in https://github.com/F5Networks/f5-ansible/tree/master/library Could someone…
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F5 bigip load balancer real time monitoring of requests / responses timing

I'm looking for a way to monitor requests / responses timing in real time. how many requests are processing right now, and for how long each request being processed ( when started, which pool / server ) is there a way to push / pull information…
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WCF Service under loadbalancer problem

In loadbalancer (bigip/f5) environment WCF services are not working after the website is set to run under asp.net 4.0. The Javascript proxy requests are going as http instead of https under asp.net 4 which is causing “Access denied” errors in JS. …
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How can I make IIS and ASP.NET aware of SSL Offloading so that it uses correct protocol for Response.Redirect?

How can I make IIS and ASP.NET aware of SSL Offloading so that it uses correct protocol for Response.Redirect? I am working with a client who is using F5 load balancer with SSL offloading. The IIS web site (and ASP.NET web app) are bound to HTTP,…
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REST Service not enabled in Bigip 12

I have BigIP VE 12.1 installed and activated with lab licence. I couldn't access it using Rest API. I researched questions related this and checked "service restjavad it is running fine still rest calls not getting any response. someone please help…
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Delete hadoop tmp files within a date range

I am new to Hadoop and trying to find out what command/script to use to empty out my tmp folder within a specific time range. Any suggestion is appreciated!
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F5 Load balancer over web server

I have to derive the infrastructure set up for my company. I was confused if a web server(Apache) can be replaced by F5 load balancer. Are all the capabilities a web server possess/handles can be handled/possessed by F5 load balancer. What i know is…
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XML parse error in encrypted Attribute in SAML response

I have a simple web application (JSF) based on Spring Security SAML to test the BIG-IP F5 as IdP. After the login on F5, everything works fine when there is no encrypted Attributes in the SAML response, but whenever one Attribute is encrypted, there…
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Forward Akamai's True-Client-IP via F5 BigIP

Akamai returns client IP in True-Client-IP header. This can be disabled in Akamai settings so that Akamai will return client IP in HTTP-X-Forwarded-For header, but this will contain multiple IP addresses (Client IP, Proxy 1, Proxy 2, etc). I need to…
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F5 BIG-IP Powershell/iControl - Query Current Connections at the Node Level

I am working on Powershell scripts to do automated deployments to our servers behind our BIG-IP LTM. I have simple scripts that use the iControl powershell cmdlets to disable and re-enable the nodes: Disable-F5.LTMNodeAddress -Node…
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