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Nick_T_68319
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Nov 18, 2009

cookie insert

So if I use the default F5 cookie, it names it like:     BIGipServerMYPOOLNAME     That's cool, but as a requirement from our infosec department, they want me to rename the cooki...
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hoolio
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Nov 19, 2009
Yes, the default cookie name is BIGipServer. As far as I'm aware, you cannot modify the default cookie name prefix.

 

 

If you set the cookie name to a custom one in a custom cookie insert persistence profile, LTM will use that explicitly for all cookies inserted. It won't be modified to anything else based on which pool a request is load balanced to. So if you want to customise the cookie name, you'd want to do this either with a custom cookie profile for each VIP (assuming one pool per VIP) or using an iRule. You can specify in a custom HTTP profile a cookie name to encrypt/decrypt the value for. You could also do the cookie encryption in an iRule.

 

 

If you go the iRule route and want help, reply here for suggestions.

 

 

Aaron