Automating ACMEv2 Certificate Management on BIG-IP
While we often associate and confuse Let's Encrypt with ACMEv2, the former is ultimately a consumer of the latter. The "Automated Certificate Management Environment" (ACME) protocol describes a system for automating the renewal of PKI certificates. The ACME protocol can be used with public services like Let's Encrypt, but also with internal certificate management services. In this article we explore the more generic support of ACME (version 2) on the F5 BIG-IP.
Question on configuring SNI clientSSL Profile
Hi Experts , I have a question on configuring the SNI SSL profile .Suppose say I have 3 different certificate and 3 SSL profile to be attached to the VIP to configure SNI . https://www.securesite1.com ClientSSL1 > Default SSL Profile for SNI https://www.securesite2.com ClientSSL2 https://www.securesite3.com ClientSSL3 To enable SNI, we configure the Server Name and Default SSL Profile for SNI will be checked on an SSL profile of ClientSSL1, and then assign the profile to a virtual server. How about on other 2 SSL profiles ClientSSL2 & ClientSSL3 ? For other SSL profiles do I need to type the name for the HTTPS site in the Server Name box ? or it can be left blank ?
Certificate expiry monitoring
Hello Everyone! Would like to ask how you monitor your certs in your F5s? we would like to monitor the certificate expiry on our F5. I am checking our logs on ltm but it seems that the normal certs are not being logged. I only see cert bundles. Can you share how you monitor the certs expiry on f5?serverssl cipher suites
Hi, Is there an easier way to know what are the cipher suites that the backend server (pool member) can support? I have read an article but it requires to create a script. I know there is openssl but this will only show the cipher that the backend server used to communicate back with F5. So I was thinking like if from F5 perspective will it be able to perform an sslscan what are the available ciphers suites the backend server can support? Thanks, and regards, Rechie
Missing Certificate after redirect
We have a requirement for any calls coming into https://abc.com to be redirected to Azure APIM https://apim-xyz.com/api A simple following rule has been setup in F5 for calls coming into https://abc.com when HTTP_REQUEST { HTTP::respond 307 Location "https://apim-xyz.com/api" } But the problem we are facing is with client certificate. After the redirect, the client certificate is no longer available and new URL "https://apim-xyz.com/api" is not able to validate the request. We have no control over the client. We can control F5, redirect and server. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Provision IOS profile for Exchange ActiveSync with client certificate authentication
Problem this snippet solves: If you need to use client certificate authentication for ActiveSync services on IOS, you need to deploy custom profiles through a Mobile Device Management. MDM is maybe a little bit too much to achieve only this feature. The irule below provide necessary materials to provision a certificate and an exchange profile on IOS. Tested successfully on IOS 9. We use SCEP protocol for certificate enrollment. How to use this snippet: You need to define a Virtual Server and an access profile to publish ActiveSync. Then, you need to assign the irule on the Virtual Server. The certificate is retrieved using SCEP protocol on a Microsoft ADCS 2012 R2. The SCEP url should be changed in the Exchange payload. We configured APM to protect the access to this service and retrieve attributes from Active Directory but you can change the irule code to retrieve information and protect the service in a different manner. When a user reach /enroll uri with Safari browser, the provisioning process starts. /!\ I provide an IOS payload as example, but you need to modify it to fit your environment and save it as an ifile. Settings that need to be changed in the xml payload : <string>HOST.DOMAIN.COM</string> : Activesync FQDN <string>DOMAIN-Issuer-CA</string> : Issuing CA Name (if exists otherwise related code should be removed) <data>CERTIFICATE</data> : X.509 certificate in Base64 for Issuing CA <string>DOMAIN-Root-CA</string> : Root CA Name <data>CERTIFICATE</data> : X.509 certificate in Base64 for the Root CA <string>DOMAIN</string> : Organization name to be present in the user certificate <string>http://scep.domain.com/scep</string> : SCEP url External links Github : github.com/e-XpertSolutions/f5 Code : 68654 Tested this on version: 11.5Automate import of SSL Certificate, Key & CRL from BIG-IP to BIG-IQ
The functionality to automate the import of SSL cert & key from BIG-IP to BIG-IQ is available in the product starting BIG-IQ 7.0 and above. This script should not be used on BIG-IQ 7.0+ as it has not been tested on those versions. This script will import all supported SSL Certificate, Key & CRL that exist as unmanaged objects on this BIG-IQ which can be found on the target BIG-IP. Steps performed by the script: Gather certificate and key metadata (including cache-path) from BIG-IPs Download certificate and key file data from BIG-IPs Upload certificate and key file data to BIG-IQ Prerequisite: Discover and import LTM services before using this script.The target BIG-IP will be accessed over ssh using the BIG-IP root account. Installation: The script must be installed in BIG-IQ under /shared/scripts: # mkdir /shared/scripts# chmod +x /shared/scripts/import-bigip-cert-key-crl.py Command example: # ./import-bigip-cert-key-crl.py <big-ip IP address> Enter the root user's password if prompted. Allowed command line options: -h show this help message and exit -l LOG_FILE, log to the given file name --log-level {debug,info,warning,error,critical}, set logging to the given level (default: info) -p PORT BIG-IP ssh port (default: 22) Result: Configuration > Certificate Management > Certificates & Keys Before running the script: After running the script: Location of the scripts on GitHub: https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-big-iq-pm-team In case you BIG-IQ is running on Hardware: Step 1: Install packages using pip, targeting a location of your choice # mkdir py-modules# pip install --target py-modules requests argparse Step 2: Run using python2.7, adding py-modules to the python path # PYTHONPATH=py-modules python2.7 import-bigip-cert-key-crl.py <big-ip IP address>
