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APM Cookbook: Single Sign On (SSO) using Kerberos

To get the APM Cookbook series moving along, I’ve decided to help out by documenting the common APM solutions I help customers and partners with on a regular basis. Kerberos SSO is nothing new, bu...
Published Apr 28, 2014
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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Sounds like you need to set the "SPN Pattern" on the Kerberos SSO configuration. From the APM help page:

 

  • HTTP/%h@REALM with REALM replaced by the actual realm name as specified in the Kerberos Realm field. The %h option takes the hostname from the HTTP request Host header. For example, from this header, Host: , %h is replaced with . The %h option is useful for multi-homed web servers (when multiple hosts use a single IP address) to avoid issues with DNS reverse lookup.
  • HTTP/%s@REALM with REALM replaced by the actual realm name as specified in the Kerberos Realm field. The %s option takes the hostname discovered through reverse DNS lookup using the server IP address.

Also have a look at: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/feed/0D51T00006i7ZhkSAE

 

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