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eey0re
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May 26, 2017

46.116.101.183 in BIG-IQ REST requests to BIG-IP

BIG-IQ CM 5.1 managing BIG-IP 11.6.1 makes several requests a minute to the BIG-IP REST API:

POST /mgmt/shared/inflate?em_server_ip=46.116.101.183&em_server_auth_token=[long token] HTTP/1.1

My questions are..

What is 

46.116.101.183
? It appears to belong to an ISP in Israel. It has nothing to do with our environment as far as I can tell.

Does everyone else's BIG-IQ CM do this too? You can check by running a capture like this on your BIG-IP for a few minutes, and loading it up in Wireshark:

tcpdump -i lo -s 0 -w /var/tmp/rest.pcap port 8100

And lastly, what is the 

/mgmt/shared/inflate
REST endpoint? I can't find it documented.

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  • Tim_K_92675's avatar
    Tim_K_92675
    Jun 19, 2017

    I opened a case about this and was told the following:

     

    Regarding the 'em_server_ip=46.116.101.183' question, this is just a method that BigIQ implements to hash device group names into ipv4 addresses. That IP address does not correspond to any real communication - it's just a numeric hash of a string. Nothing to worry about, per our Engineering.

     

  • Tim_K_92675's avatar
    Tim_K_92675
    Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
    Jun 19, 2017

    I opened a case about this and was told the following:

     

    Regarding the 'em_server_ip=46.116.101.183' question, this is just a method that BigIQ implements to hash device group names into ipv4 addresses. That IP address does not correspond to any real communication - it's just a numeric hash of a string. Nothing to worry about, per our Engineering.