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Mayank_Shukla
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Oct 03, 2016

Default client and server ssl profile usage

Hi, In what conditions one should use default client/ssl profiles ? If I am using a custom client ssl profile( using actual certificate/key for the VIP) but using the default server ssl profile for ...
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boneyard
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Oct 03, 2016

the default client ssl profile can be useful to quickly setup a HTTPS virtual server for testing, but beyond that i wouldn't use it. do remember it is the basis of your actual ssl client profiles so changes there propagate further. F5 advises not to make changes to those default profiles btw.

 

the default server ssl profile can be used for any SSL connections to pool members that need it. there it often is enough and custom profiles aren't needed.