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Should you disable ASM LTM software update checks on the BIG-IPs when enabling them on BIG-IQ?
- Apr 06, 2021
The F5 documentation is one of the best I have seen, so the answer is there. You can have Auto updates from the F5 devices or make the BIG-IQ to do it, it is your choise. When you have BUG-IQ better do it from there, so better stop it on the F5 devices.
https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigiq-7-1-0/big-iq-web-application-security/managing-signature-files.html
The issue you could see is that after 14.0 the F5 devices use live updates and not signature files and so better to have the BIG-IQ on a 7.1.x version or newer and F5 devices on 14.1.x or newer for this to work.
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K8217
The F5 documentation is one of the best I have seen, so the answer is there. You can have Auto updates from the F5 devices or make the BIG-IQ to do it, it is your choise. When you have BUG-IQ better do it from there, so better stop it on the F5 devices.
https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigiq-7-1-0/big-iq-web-application-security/managing-signature-files.html
The issue you could see is that after 14.0 the F5 devices use live updates and not signature files and so better to have the BIG-IQ on a 7.1.x version or newer and F5 devices on 14.1.x or newer for this to work.
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K8217
- RiadSanchzApr 14, 2021Cirrus
Nikoolayy1 - Thanks for answering my questions. Seems redundant to have updates on the BIG-IP and BIG-IQ. I have successfully disabled BIG-IP updates and the BIG-IQ has been updating the BIG-IP's. Thanks so much for the clarification!!
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