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brian-memeo_235's avatar
brian-memeo_235
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Nov 03, 2016

F5 will not do Load balancing "only" for SSL connections!

Windows IIS7 server, has UCC SAN Certificate, and has the proper bindings modified via cscript for "hostname." The local host name does not match the UCC SAN certificate, forcing me to use "cscript....
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Andrew_Husking's avatar
Andrew_Husking
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Nov 03, 2016

2 things i can think of that would cause this.

 

Firstly are the health checks returning that the backend is ok?

 

Secondly, do the backend servers have a route to the clients that goes through the F5 or do they go direct? If they go direct you need to enable SNAT (automap should work fine) in order for the traffic to flow correctly.

 

Regards,