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bigipjr28_13978
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May 27, 2014

f5 enterprise manager fails to connect to LTMS

Hello, I have a handful of ltms that cant communicate with EM. There is about half that can talk to the the EM and half that cant. The LTMS are 11.4.1 and EM is 3.1.0. The EM talks to the LTMs fin...
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Joe_M
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Jun 17, 2014

I am actually dealing with the same thing right now. The problem is probably a firewall blocking the communication that the LTM initiates with the EM. The real question is though, is it initiating the connection through the management interface or one of the traffic interfaces/IP's? Then if you have a self IP configured on the EM as well, which IP on the EM is the LTM trying to communicate with? Once you figure that out, you should be able to open up your firewalls appropriately.