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veato
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Jul 10, 2017

Report Client IPs

I have a Vs for a particular service and the service owner would like to know the client IPs that access this to enable them to run some reporting - presumably on numbers of individual users.   I ...
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Jad_Tabbara__J1
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Jul 10, 2017

Hello Veato,

 

If it is an HTTP service, you can insert the X-Forwarded-For (HTTP header) to send the client IP to the backend server. Then the owner of the service can log the request on his backend and get the client IP.

 

You can add an irule to do that or you can enable it by editing the HTTP Profile.

 

Let me know if want to do it like that and if you need help for this implementation.