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Ok, this is a fairly older document but it gives an idea of configuration of some of these features.
https://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-sap-dg.pdf
These are fairly standard LTM functions so if you are familiar with basic LTM operations, you should be good. If not, you may want to have a look at university.f5.com so some introductory content on LTM to get yourself up and running.
We already have SAP deployed and the task I want to accomplish is using F5 as an API gateway that will route traffic to SAP. We do have BIG-IP ASM/AMP/LTM products.
- buulamJul 21, 2022Admin
You can achieve a lot of that but you'll need to dissect the functions from the existing Layer7 solution a little bit further. They do typically translate to what would be standard reverse proxy, SSL/TLS offload or bridging, rewriting, authentication and WAF functions on a BIG-IP. Each of those functions is a lot to unpack if you are just getting started with BIG-IP so I would suggest at least getting through some of the Getting Started courses on university.f5.com. I would also suggest discussing with your local F5 Solutions Engineer as well as they can probably get into a deeper discussion about what you have configured on your Layer7 and give you a bit of a road map on what to tackle first on your BIG-IP.
- NforbaJul 21, 2022Nimbostratus
We are currently utilizing Layer7 as an API gateway, mainly to handle LDAP authentication and SAP ochestration. We want to move those services from layer 7 to F5 and get rid of layer7. I just need a process or steps to migrate any of the service
- buulamJul 25, 2022Admin
This might be a good place to start: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-0-0/big-ip-local-traffic-manager-implementations/configuring-the-big-ip-system-as-a-reverse-proxy-server.html
This depends a bit on your familiarity with BIG-IP but this can at least get you started.