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Velhoon_96037
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Oct 30, 2007

Deployment Guide for Blackboard and BigIP LTM?

Since I had such luck with my first posting, I'll try again. Is there a deployment guide for using Blackboard v7 on IIS6 with F5 LTM? Blackboards "selective" SSL settings are giving me fits. I'm wondering if I'll have to put certs on my webservers (nodes) as well as a cert on the F5 to get https that doesn't loop but gets balanced. Again, any help will be appreciated.

 

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  • Gavin_Connell-O's avatar
    Gavin_Connell-O
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    Feb 26, 2014

    My bad, it was Safari that started causing our connection overload, and this was quite a way back. So far no issues with FF 27 (so far...) Our solution was to create an iRule which intercepted preview requests and sent a thumbnail jpg instead of polling the BB server. The JPG was stored as an iFile on the F5...

     

    Probably not your issue, but it's good to share! :)

     

    Gavin

     

  • latheef_53585's avatar
    latheef_53585
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    May 07, 2014

    I'm looking for a document which can guide me to configure Blackboard 9.1 SP13 on F5 OS 10.0.0. Please share the document.

     

    My mail ID is lathef@gmail.com

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    a.latheef

     

  • JG's avatar
    JG
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    May 08, 2014

    It's basically just the Apache HTTP server, plus Tomcat, so it's fairly easy to get it work with some basic configurations. See http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-apache-dg.pdf . For auxiliary services, a virtual server with a simple TCP or "Performance (Layer 4)" type will work.