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Rupesh_M
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Oct 23, 2013

SSO functionality for Revese Proxy

Hi,   We are looking for SSO functionality on Reverse Proxy with BIG IP 4000. If multiple sites are published through Reverse Proxy and users access any one of those site, it will redirect user to...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 24, 2013

Steve is absolutely correct. This is a primary function of the Access Policy Manager (APM) module. Also understand that under most conditions, the BIG-IP platform IS already a reverse proxy. So APM can collect user credentials and then use those credentials to transparently authenticate the user to different applications behind the reverse proxy. Moreover, the type of SSO can be different for each application (ie NTLM, Kerberos, form, Basic, etc.) and you can even authenticate across federated platforms with SAML.