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Herman2024
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Jan 10, 2025

should set hostname first on new F5 appliance before running setup utility?

hi , we are going to setup a new F5 appliance. I have one question regarding device certificate, should we set hostname first on new F5 appliance before running setup utility because the host name will be used in the device certificate enrollment? Please advise, thanks. 

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  • Paulius's avatar
    Paulius
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    Jan 10, 2025

    Herman2024 I believe this guide can still be followed for the most part and it does recommend that you configure the hostname of the device activating and licensing the device.

    https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-system-initial-configuration-11-6-0/1.html

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      Herman2024
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      Jan 15, 2025

      hi Paulius , thanks for your advice. In order to make the device certificate is more readable , better to have the hostname configured first then generate the local device. So the setup utiliy seems not very good because generating device certificate first , then can configure the hostname under Tab "Platform". Now I need to renew the device certificate after set the hostname.