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Johnnyx_304575
Cirrus
CirrusAPM Portal - App Tunnel not working from external network
Hello - I am pretty new to APM. I just configured an APM Portal that is doing an App Tunnel to open a SSH connection to one of our servers. From inside the corporate network I am able to connect to...
Probably you are trying to connect to the backend IP directly. Apptunnel creates a local listener on 127.x.x.x to allow the app to connect and puts that into %HOST% and %PORT% parameters that can be passed to the app.
Configure it like this:
https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/how-to-configure-static-app-tunnel-parameters-in-apm
Probably you are trying to connect to the backend IP directly. Apptunnel creates a local listener on 127.x.x.x to allow the app to connect and puts that into %HOST% and %PORT% parameters that can be passed to the app.
Configure it like this:
https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/how-to-configure-static-app-tunnel-parameters-in-apm
Johnnyx_304575Thanks Lucas!! I had originally added %HOST% to the App Tunnel but did not include %PORT%. I went back and removed the backend IP and added -ssh %HOST% %PORT% and this is now working!!