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MrRobertBooth
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Jun 26, 2023

LTM Virtual Server Require Mandatory Settings

Is there a way on the F5 VE to setup things so that when a virtual server is being configured, it requires the user to either select an Access Policy or an ASM policy before the webui will allow it t...
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whisperer
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Jun 26, 2023

You can create a custom iApp template for this. Helps to control workflows. Users then use this iApp template for adding new VS. Good way to also control naming conventions, profile options, etc.

https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/iapps/

Hope this helps? This is how we have solved similar problems for customers.

 

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    MrRobertBooth
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    Jun 27, 2023

    So - we are very familair with iapps and actually were heavy users of it for consistency and enforcing things like like this; however, when we went through and migrated from our on-premise F5 LTMs to AWS VE in the last 24-26 months our F5 account team told us that we should stop using iapps as F5 is changing that direction and would ultimately do away with iapps.