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uni
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Aug 13, 2013

Allowing access to activate.f5.com through a firewall for ASM signature updates

Can the IP address of activate.f5.com change? A customer of mine allows their ASM to access the site by IP address in their firewall for signature updates, but a couple of months ago the address chan...
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smp_86112
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Aug 14, 2013

I have no experience with ASM updates - do you have the capability to configure the endpoint for the updates, or is that hard-coded to activate.f5.com?

 

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smp_86112
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Aug 14, 2013
Actually, this is probably irrelevant. I was going to propose a half-baked idea of creating a VIP with an iRule which resolves activate.f5.com and uses it for a Pool Member. However, I am confusing products - ASM is not an LTM...sorry.