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May 26, 2017Cirrostratus
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
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- 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.