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Irule applied stream profile and URLs in comments - any thoughts?

This is more of a general TCL quesiton than an irule question, but it involves the selective application of the stream profile in an irule. Here is the general form of the irule: when HTTP_RESPONSE { if { [HTTP::header Content-Ty...

Query execution failed for data set 'GroupProperties' error for several reports

Seeing this error for several reports, including Virtual Servers by Bandwidth, Virtual Servers by Connection Count, and Unused Virtual Servers. From the SRS log: w3wp!library!6!06/25/2009-10:46:27:: i INFO: Call to RenderFirst( '/F5_Managemen...

Help with 301 redirect irule

Hi guys, I have setup the following IRULE for a 301 redirect when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/index.html" } { HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.blah.blah.co.uk/blah-blah-blah/" } It appears to w...

Access control iRule

We've written an irule to deny access to a few uri(s). iRules if fairly new to us and we want to make sure we're writing our iRule in the most efficiently way possible. Based on the client ip/network (internal network users require access) and the ...

Compare a variable to a list

I have an issue with my iRule. I am attepmting to compare a variable value to a white list of values. I have written the following iRule. However, if I place more than one value in my DataGroup, the iRule fails. Is there another way to compare a ...

ClientCLI Stop Help

Is there a way for the f5fpc command line function to stop all current open sessions? The documentation points out that you have to pass it a session id for it to close, but I won't have the session ID (because the language I'm using is a third part...

iNotes irule on asm standalone

Hi everybody, is it possible to implement next irule(http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=108)on a asm standalone machine? If no are there workarounds to reverse proxy the inotes over asm.. Thanks in advance greets F p.s. w...

BIGIP v10 graphing CPU and Memory

Hi, Has anyone managed to gain the system CPU and Memory utilisations accurately graphed from a v10 unit yet? I have used the MIB and formula data referenced in other posts but the values don't marry up with the dashboard results at all. ...

persistence table manipulation

I have users coming into the BIG-IP from several transparent proxies that sit in front of the BIG-IP. The BIG-IP then forwards them (using a forwarding VS) to their destination server. I need a way to make sure if that server then tries to mak...

single VS distributing new connections across multiple pools with persistence

We have a single VS in standard mode with 2 pools of servers. Each pool contains different servers. VS has cookie insert persistence with named cookie and a 17min timeout. Goal is to have 1 out of every X number of NEW connections only go t...

Get back to the template summary screen?

After you've run through the Application Template for a particular config, and it gives you a nice list of the items it's created for you, is it possible to get BACK to this screen/listing? For example, I've run through the Microsoft Exchange ...

Network Management Software

We are a small legal firm in the UK and looking to upgrade from some open source network management tools we are using. We use a range of devices from F5 and other manufacturers and we are looking for a commercially supported network managemen...

Standby pool Member

Hi, New to F5, and I did a search but did not find the solution. I need to set up 2 pool members but only one member to be used at a time the second member just in standby mode only and only active when the 1st member fail. Thanks

Rewrite portion of URI?

Hi everyone. First off this forum/website has been invaluable for finding information and answering my questions for quite some time. Wonderful! So to my question, I have a particular site that we are accessing via http://sub.domain.com/cul...

Throttle redirect

Hi, I'm looking for a way to redirect http requests to another web server if the number of incoming http requests to the BigIP VIP exceeds a certain per second. I need to be able to not try and service too many requests and overwhelm my syst...

how to re-write page content

Hi, I have a web app that sends some parameters in the body of the html as follows: I need to find and rewrite these values to https://HOST_NAME:443/URI. Is it also possible to make this happen only for certain re...

How to enable email service while pool member is unavailable

Hi Friends, Kindly help me regarding how to enable email service during any pool member will show unavailable. Inshort i need to configure F5 such that anyting goes wrong in F5 (or inside F5) i get an email. Please tell me whic...

How to configure syslog server with F5

Hi Friends, Kindly help me regarding configuration of syslog server with F5. Actually we need all the logs generated by F5 move to one seperate syslog server in daily basis. For this what are the cahanges need to configure in F5 ...

Firmware Update question

Hi everyone, sorry if this is not in the correct forum. If it's not please let me know which one it should be posted in. Just a quick question. We have a Firepass 1200 that is running firmware 6.02. We now wish to upgrade to 6.03, mainl...

IRULE Guide

Hi I am looking for an IRULE guide to start learning and understanding better how to use them please help me to find something good Thanks

active/active F5 LTM

Hi, Does anyone have experience of running F5 in active/active configuration. My local F5 personnel recommends me that F5 in active/active pair is not recommended. Whats the issue in running as an active/active pair. Thanks and Regards,...

Proxy OCSP request

Our Big-IP LTM dev/test device is sitting behind company's firewall. In order to make an OCSP request to our CA, which is an Internet site, I have to configure it to go through the proxy. So far I can't find any manual chapter on how to do it. ...

Irule for Ldap auth based on URL syntax

Hi guys, I am trying to replace some existing security functionality performed by an apache reverse proxy with some I-rules. I am not sure if what I want to do is even possible..... Basicaly the site has its security based on the ...

dis / enable a wideip pool member..

Hi, I have no clue how to use icontrol... I would like to be able to dis /enable a wideip pool member... Looks like I will have to use something like: set_enabled_state( in String [] pool_names, in GlobalLB__PoolMembe...

HTTP Monitor and checking http headers

I'm monitoring several web servers and wanted to come up with a health monitor that just checks the HTTP response code. I needed two... One that accepts 200/301/302 and one that also accepts an authorization request. It took a bit of head scratching,...

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