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Ethan_26556
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Feb 06, 2013

Firepass to Edge Gateway migration

All - I am looking for the Firepass Migration Guide mentioned in section FirePass SSL VPN Migration of the following article by Peter Silva. Peter mentions that the migration guide will be "availab...
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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ccb
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Feb 07, 2013
Hi Ethan,

 

 

I don't believe there is a migration doc available. As the article was written a year ago so I doubt one will be provide. I know that the F5 Professional Services have a migration package to offer customers (http://www.f5.com/pdf/professional-services/firepass-apm-migration-services-ds.pdf).

 

 

With a migration from FirePass to APM one has to realize that the products work on totally different software platforms. Hence you will not get a like for like. (i.e. APM does not have the concept of Master Groups or Resource groups). Instead you have a VPE in APM which allows you to customize what resources a user will have access to. Another example is that FirePass has Web services, in APM you have virtual servers. Therefore the migration will most likely be a manual process.