id_rsa and id_rsa.pub are typically how SSH public/private keys are stored. Assuming you're creating client SSL profiles for TLS traffic, those certs are loaded under System ›› Certificate Management : Traffic Certificate Management : SSL Certificate List.
I have created profiles, uploaded certificates as well. There are many profiles and for them, I have uploaded total 3 certificate like abc.com, xyz.cn and mno.ru.
When we upgrade the software, we download the keys id_rsa and id_rsa.pub and then upload after upgrade.
I need the clarificatiion what those files contains. As per me, those files contains keys for all three certificate private and public keys. is it true or what os in those two files?
My guess is you'lll see a single SSH cert and single SSH key, which is not what you're looking for. These are normally key file you'd use to SSH remote into a machine.
The TLS certificates you import for client SSL profiles are generally stored in the file system and will have a .crt or .cer extension.
You are right, there is only single BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY- in id_rsa and single public key in id_rsa.pub.
Could you please just let me know where do we use those keys as we use Active directory credentials to login to F5. Just write the purpose of those keys or any article, where I can read about them and we can close this topic.
Sure. The questions asked were to attempt to understand the challenges. id_rsa keys are not used for TLS traffic, so you would not apply these to BIG-IP SSL profiles. You would normally use this type of key for SSH remote access to some system. You could also see these keys used in an AFM SSH proxy configuration:
