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Philip_Jonsson_
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Nov 23, 2018

Provisioning AWAF

Hey everyone!   So I'm new to AWAF and figured I'd lab a bit with it to check out the additional features. I have generated a StrongBox license that includes it and added it to my BIG-IP VE runnin...
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Philip_Jonsson_
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Nov 23, 2018

I actually went back to the licensing bits since the table states "Base VE as AWAF". I managed to find one named "WAF". So I deployed a completely new BIG-IP and used that license instead. Now I still cannot select AWAF and based on Nathans reply and my previous suspicion, I should provision the ASM module.

 

With only ASM provisioned, it still does not seem that I have provisioned "AWAF" since I'm not limited in terms of load balancing options. I should only be able to select this:

 

Load balancing methods supported:

 

  • Round Robin
  • Ratio (member)
  • Ratio (node)
  • Least Connections (member)
  • Least Connections (node)
  • Weighted Least Connection (member)
  • Weighted Least Connection (node)
  • Ratio Least Connection (member)
  • Ratio Least Connection (node)

I got the following options:

 

 

Here is the new license:

 

 

So this does not have anything related to LTM. This does not make any sense haha