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LukasM_184208
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Feb 04, 2015

Installing additional licence and provisioning.

Hello,

 

We are running f5 LTM in HA active-standby mode. The company is going to purchase additional license for ASM. I was unable to find any f5 official guides on how to proceed with license installation and provisioning of ASM. So How I see it: On the standby device

 

1. System -> License and add add-on key for ASM and activate

 

2. System -> Resource Provisioning -> keep LTM on nominal, add ASM on Nominal.

 

At this point appliance will restart and I can flip the cluster to make this appliance active by starting the same process on active device, correct?

 

After provisioning standby device, what checks can I perform to be sure that Cluster is in sync and that fail-over is going to be successful?

 

If I am way off the recommended "procedure" please let me know how to proceed :)

 

Thanks for the help!

 

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ASM Advanced WAF
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  • amolari's avatar
    amolari
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    Feb 04, 2015

    The procedure is correct.

     

    Just sync the config after the reboot and if everything is fine it should come "In sync" again. If failover was performing well before the change, there is no reason it won't after. But if you want assurance, just force a failover and check your services are behaving as expected.