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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.
Nikoolayy1
MVP
MVPAlso as a note if you are using Next Access there is the HTTP Connector (carried over from APM) that can do the same. It may not still be added but it should be there in the future: