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tjunak_222599
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Sep 24, 2015

Offloading authentication

I am totally new to F5 world and my understanding to some of F5 features can be incorrect... so our customer is going to use F5 LTM that will mange a number servers/services. Now we are trying to com...
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Seth_Cooper's avatar
Seth_Cooper
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Sep 25, 2015

Hi,

 

You can certainly offload authentication to the F5 using the APM module. You would have an access profile enabled on your virtual server and in this access profile you can set it up to do all kinds of checks and authentication.

 

You will be unable to look directly into the DB2 database to validate user credentials. This isn't a huge issue if you can have your developers create a simple web page that can accept the credentials and then respond with "yes" or "no. If you can have that setup then we can have an HTTP Auth object where we will take the username and password and pass them to an HTTP page and based on the response allow or reject the access.

 

If you have any other questions please let me know or reach out to your local sales reps.

 

Seth