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What are F5 Access and BIG-IP Edge Clients?

tl;dr - F5 Access and BIG-IP Edge are VPN clients that connect to APM access policies for L3 network connectivity. Building on the DevCentral Basics article What is BIG-IP APM, a few quest...
Published Jul 14, 2017
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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If you use F5 Access, that is going to tunnel your connection to your site. You can split tunnel it or go full VPN tunnel. You would use either/or in this case. If you don't need a traditional VPN tunnel, go with a web-top and use granular app access.

 

I only use it when connecting to resources that are not available via webtop.

 

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