Licensing Wizard Error - FIPS

Ok Rob.

Here’s something that we can try. I’ve tested this in my environment and apparently works. I’m going to try to do a more involved testing but the change is not intrusive and you can give it a try as well. We’re going to do just an ISOLATED change, by forcing the runtime configuration of the F5 Monitoring Service, EXCLUSIVELY, to ignore the FIPS policy. All of the other system processes would still follow the FIPS GPO.

Here’re the steps (and I assume you’ve already completed the licensing wizard successfully, by temporarily disabling FIPS):

1. Make sure FIPS is enabled / ON (according to your GPO settings).

2. Go to Services Control Manager and stop the F5 Monitoring Service;

3. Go to %Program Files%\F5 Networks\Management Pack and edit the f5mpsvc.exe.config file. Scroll down to the bottom of the file, and BEFORE the closing tag, insert the following XML snippet:

4. Save the f5mpsvc.exe.config file

5. Restart the F5 Monitoring Service.

6. Check for errors.

Let me know how it goes.

Thank you.

julian