Provisioning AWAF

Yeah, that is exactly what I mean. I got the impression that AWAF has many features from the LTM but not all of them and the load-balancing bits are quick way of detecting that. I found the following article, specifying that additional load balancing methods have been added:

Load Balancing: No limit on IP pool members number

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)

Persistency:

• Cookie Persistency
• Source Address
• Host
• Destination Address

Release Note: BIG-IP 13.1.0 New Features and Installation

I have not seen an article where they have added Observed, Fastest or Predictive so naturally they should not be available in AWAF. I have tried both ASM provisioned BIG-IP with an AWAF license and an ASM priovisioned BIG-IP formed out from an LTM license with best bundle upgrade and additional AWAF license.

When checking persistence I have all options available as well. So it feels pretty odd and like I'm using a regular LTM box.

Both BIG-IP systems are running 13.1.1.2 and release notes in 13.1.1.2 does not specify anything different. So it feels like I'm running a full LTM with only AWAF/ASM provisioned and it does not seem right according to the documentation.