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N__197982
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Jun 06, 2017

design help for authentication using F5 APM.

Folks, We are looking at some help on getting our authentication piece configured using APM. The requirement here is that in case any user wants to reach servers on the network he should pass through...
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MvdG
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Jun 15, 2017

Hi,

 

So you want to use the F5 APM for authentication only? Can you explain why? I understand from you question all users are internal. They can access the servers directly.

 

I asume you have a external user database like AD or LDAP, so why not let the servers authenticate directly against those user databases?

 

You need some kind of mechanism so the F5 APM can tell the server authentication was succesfull. I am not sure if there is a easy way to accomplisch this.

 

Regards, Martijn