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m1978_295079
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May 03, 2017
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HTTPS communication and client and server ssl profile

Hi, I have a LTM which is listening on port 53443 from client to F5, Pool member also talking with F5 on port 53443. But I cant see any client or server ssl profile in Vertual Server. So do i actuall...
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    Ryan_80361
    May 03, 2017

    You don't need client/server ssl profile configured on the virtual server, however without the profiles you will not be able to manipulate the traffic etc as the LTM can't understand the encrypted traffic.

     

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Ryan_80361
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May 03, 2017

You don't need client/server ssl profile configured on the virtual server, however without the profiles you will not be able to manipulate the traffic etc as the LTM can't understand the encrypted traffic.

 

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Ryan_80361
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May 03, 2017

Yes, you're doing SSL passthrough.