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MihirP1129
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Jun 11, 2019

Virtual Servers template?

Hello All,

 

Is there a way to create a Virtual Servers "template" with predefined settings on a Big IP F5 load balancer? We create VS almost every day for our clients and would help if we could setup a VS from a template to make our life a bit easier.

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  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
    Jun 18, 2019

    You can use CLI to create the VS (replace "<...>" fields with the correct value).

    tmsh create ltm virtual <VS_NAME> \
destination <VS_IP>:443 \
profiles add { tcp http_20 <CLIENTSSL_PROFILE> } \
vlans replace-all-with { Internal Web } vlans-enabled \
snatpool Prod \
pool Webfarm_pool \
persist replace-all-with { cookie_20 } \
rules { httpTest_irule1 httpTest_irule2 httpTest_irule3 }

    Finally you have to save the config from running-config to startup-config.

    tmsh save sys config

    KR,

    Dario.

  • Dario_Garrido's avatar
    Dario_Garrido
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    Jun 18, 2019

    You can use CLI to create the VS (replace "<...>" fields with the correct value).

    tmsh create ltm virtual <VS_NAME> \
destination <VS_IP>:443 \
profiles add { tcp http_20 <CLIENTSSL_PROFILE> } \
vlans replace-all-with { Internal Web } vlans-enabled \
snatpool Prod \
pool Webfarm_pool \
persist replace-all-with { cookie_20 } \
rules { httpTest_irule1 httpTest_irule2 httpTest_irule3 }

    Finally you have to save the config from running-config to startup-config.

    tmsh save sys config

    KR,

    Dario.

  • MihirP1129's avatar
    MihirP1129
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    Jun 11, 2019

    Thanks for that. Is there a easy way where I could take an exisiting Virtual server setup and convert into an iApp?

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    MihirP1129
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    Jun 17, 2019

    Thanks Dario for all the information and links. There is too much information and unfortunately I'm not a programmer.

     

    Could someone assist in helping me with creating a simple iApp template to deploy Virtual Servers that contains the following settings? I would greatly appreciate it.

     

    [General Properties]

     

    Name of the virtual server (**user input**)

    Type: Standard

    Source: 0.0.0.0/0

    Destination: Type HOST

             Address (**IP user input**)

    Service Port: 443 HTTPS

    Syncookie Status: Off

    State: Enabled

     

    [Configuration (BASIC) all the other options should be set to DEFAULT settings]

     

    Protocol: TCP

    HTTP Profile: http_20

    SSL Profile (Client): (**user input**)

    VLAN and Tunnel Traffic: Enabled on...

    VLAN and Tunnels : Internal

                  Web

    Source Address Translation: SNAT

    SNAT Pool: Prod

     

    [Content Rewrite]

     

    Rewrite Profile: None

    HTML Profile: None

     

    [Acceleration]

     

    Rate class: None

    OneConnect Profile: None

    NTLM Conn Pool: None

    HTTP Compression Profile: None

    Web Acceleration Profile: None

    SPDY Profile: None

     

    [Load Balancing]

     

    Default Pool: Webfarm_pool

    Default Persistence Profile: cookie_20

    Fallback Persistence Profile: None

     

    [iRules]

     

    httpTest_irule1

    httpTest_irule2

    httpTest_irule3