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Chris_Phillips
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Jun 22, 2012

Real life benefits of bypassing ASM

So I've inherited a 5 year old LTM / ASM cluster with a lot of old rules which have mostly been kicked along over various versions and architectural changes over that time.     I have a rule whi...
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hoolio
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Jun 25, 2012
If caching on LTM complicates troubleshooting, I'd just remove the iRule and have ASM validate all of the requests. Last I know you guys had spare ASM capacity so it makes sense to simplify the implementation and remove the static content iRule. Of course, you'll want to test the policy and make sure the static content is defined correctly in the security policy.

 

 

You could probably also remove some of the iRules that bypassed ASM for odd requests that ASM couldn't handle. Chances are ASM functionality has improved to the point that it can handle more of these requests.

 

 

Aaron