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awan_m
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusiRule LX replacement on bigip-Next
Hi all - we use ILX on our current bigip platform and wanted to understand what will be alternate for it in the NEXT platform. my use case is - when a HTTP request comes in the F5 extracts some info...
Fortunately BIG-IP Next Access will have this "query an arbitrary HTTP endpoint" functionality natively in upcoming versions in both per-request and per-session contexts. A quick check shows that you can write custom behaviors for different response codes so you'd be able to do something different if you get a 200 vs a 403.
As you're probably aware, BIG-IP APM has this native functionality only in a "per request" context.
Lucas_Thompson
Employee
EmployeeFortunately BIG-IP Next Access will have this "query an arbitrary HTTP endpoint" functionality natively in upcoming versions in both per-request and per-session contexts. A quick check shows that you can write custom behaviors for different response codes so you'd be able to do something different if you get a 200 vs a 403.
As you're probably aware, BIG-IP APM has this native functionality only in a "per request" context.
awan_mThanks for the response - currently we do not use apm for this - the LTM virtual server has a iruleLX(ILX) associated to it . does this mean we would have to purchase a license for APM to get this to work?
- Lucas_Thompson
Thanks for the clarification. If you're not using the APM agent to do this, you should be able to use this iRule solution to do the HTTP request: