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mink0119_312962
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Apr 17, 2017

iRule? profile? iControl?

What does the administrator use to control the interaction between the user and the application? thanks for reading my question.  
application delivery
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Kevin_Davies_40
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Apr 17, 2017

They don't. The F5 is designed to proxy the traffic to the application with as little intervention as possible. It only gets involved if you have a specific task in mind be it optimisation, caching, compression/SSL offloading, data modification, access control the list goes on. The primary goal of an F5 is availability. See my answer in that link for more detail.