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Sep 07, 2023

BIGIQ/DCD and BIGIP Admin password change

Hello, I need to change the Admin and Root passwords of my F5 environment. The topology is: BIGIQ-CM with HA DCDs and BIGIP devices in the cluster. I saw I can change automatically for all manag...
  • Sebastiansierra's avatar
    Sep 07, 2023

    Hi MaxMedov,

    This is the same case as for Big-IP, the password is used only once time to exchange SSL certificates, After this password exchange, all communication uses these certificates for authentication and communication.

    To be more clear, when you establish communication with another device, the peer device doesn´t save the password of the other system, it saves the SSL certificate to establish the communication,

    Hope it works.