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Cameron_14291
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Apr 24, 2012

SNAT IP is messing up Auditing

Greetings....     I am an F5 newbie.   We have a VIP set up using SNAT to access our Application servers.   The auditing tool we use to identify unique users does not work as it always re...
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johns
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Apr 24, 2012
If it is HTTP or HTTPS app (and your offloading SSL on the BIG-IP), then you can use the HTTP profile to insert client IP and extract in on the server for logging it in usual location.

 

 

With Apache, this is pretty trivial as illustrated in article at the following link:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/06/02/3323.aspx

 

With IIS, it requires a bit more work to accomplish:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/08/19/x_forwarded_for_log_filter_for_windows_servers.aspx