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PaulH316
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Dec 21, 2022

System calling home to product.apis.f5.com

I'm being asked to identify why a Linux system is making queries to product.apis.f5.com.  There are a number of ansible playbooks hosted on the system.  But I find no documentation indicating they ca...
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JRahm
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Ok PaulH316, I got the answer from MichaelOLeary on this...it is a call home feature for telemetry and can be disabled by setting no_f5_teem to yes in the ansible modules you are using, or by setting the F5_TELEMETRY_OFF environment variable.

I'll ask the Ansible team to document this call home feature more clearly along with the URL it uses, and also ask for an update to the knowledge article to include CIS/Ansible in the listing for product.apis.f5.com.

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PaulH316
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Jan 05, 2023

So I can add no_f5_teem=yes in the provider section of the playbook or 'export F5_TELEMTRY_OFF'.

Sounds like a plan.

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    JRahm
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    Jan 05, 2023

    Thanks for your question PaulH316 ...it will lead to improved documentation for Ansible and CIS in the near future. Nice work!