quickref_74249
Mar 09, 2016Nimbostratus
bigiq deployment
Hello,
we have purchased the BigIq as a successor of our EM. The documentation is not very clear to me for the use of self ip's.
Do I need them at all? Can't I just use the mgmt. int for all tasks? And if I will deploy an inside vlan and the corresponding self ip's how can I make sure this one is used for the communication with the bigip's and not the mgmt int?
Thank you
Alfred
You can use the management IP for all communications to/from BIG-IQ and BIG-IP. It is our suggested configuration for more recent versions of BIG-IQ. If you use a self-ip, some communication (for example: update of the REST framework) will still try to use the management IP.