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b_136889
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Mar 23, 2015

Discovering the big ip from bigiq throwing an exception

Hi, I have a BigIP LTM VE runnin on my local Openstack setup. I just have on network associated with it. I am assigning a floating IP it and using this to discover it.   I am getting following ex...
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Brad_Parker's avatar
Brad_Parker
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Mar 24, 2015

I would recommend not connecting to a floating IP but rather a local-only self IP. Also, you should check you port lock down settings.

 

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Brad_Parker
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Mar 24, 2015
You need to discover(connect) a BigIP device using a local only self-ip on the device, not the management interface. You also need to ensure that port lock down is configured to allow 443 and 22 at a minimum.