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SE0305_232306
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Nov 16, 2015

Device Certificate - Hostname vs Device Name

Does the hostname of an F5 LTM relate to device certificate in any way? I need to obtain a CA signed certificate for the web admin gui.   If my F5 device name is ltm1.F5.com and the hostname is...
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Austin_Geraci's avatar
Austin_Geraci
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Nov 17, 2015

Carefull If you're using third party signed certs for Device certs with LTMs communicating with GTMs via iQuery. The certs need to be valid for Client Auth as well as server auth or you will run into issues.

 

Check out this SOL, and go to the end for the client auth concern I mentioned - but read the whole SOL ;)