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Paul_Wade_69753
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Jun 27, 2014

For Geolocation information to be analysed, what licenses and modules do I need enabled?

A customer requires that Geolocation information be captured and logged on the F5, as only anonymised information allowed to the back end server farm. To take advantage of the geolocation capabilitie...
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Arie's avatar
Arie
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Jun 27, 2014

The default license allows for utilization of the geolocation information on the LTM only. For example, you can use it for logging (on the LTM), making load balancing decisions, and manipulation of the request. The license does not allow forwarding the geolocation information to a node.

 

However, according to the information on f5.com you can contact your sales rep to obtain permission for this.

 

PS I'm still unclear how the license would play out for something like changing the URL by adding a specific geolocation information to the path (e.g. rewriting /home/ to /uk/home/. On the one hand that would be allowed as it is the LTM that uses the geolocation information, but it also sends the result of the geolocation lookup to the back-end...