Struggling with web GUI usability with links in new tabs
Hi, there's thing thing with the web GUI for a BIG-IP that slows me down terribly, if I want, let's say, to open multiple tabs of different virtual servers, I have to do it slooooooowly, I can't open 10 tabs in like 2 seconds because the web GUI somehow needs to load everything before accepting a new link, if I open virtual server A in a new tab I have to wait for it to fully load before opening vs B because if I don't, it'll load vs B in both tabs, is there any way to prevent this from happening? It's pretty infuriating. Also is there a way to make the web GUI not work as an SPA? I know there's the "link to this page" thing in the gear icon for each page, but I just want to have my tabs with the absolute URL, not hxxps://host/xui. Thanks.LB Connection Limit Detection Method
We have set a connection limit on the load balancer. If there is a way to detect when the upper limit of the connection limit is exceeded, please let us know. We are considering detection via log monitoring, but we would like to confirm if there are other methods available.
Single LTM with multiple GTM domains
I am currently working on a Datacenter migration and we are re-IP'ing everything and rebuilding all the network appliances. I am working out the BEST, least impactful, way to migrate the GTM appliances to the new DC's. Here is the overall situation. Everything is the same version running 15.x.x with a mix of rSeries hardware running VE's and iSeries hardware also running VE's. Existing DC's: GTM Domain with two GTM's in different DC's Multiple LTM's all joined to the GTM New DC's: Two GTM's in different DC's, blank configuration Multiple LTM's all joined with the existing DC GTM's I know that I can add the new GTM's to the existing DC GTM domain, let them sync up, then update the NS records to migrate the DNS flows over to the new DC, but that also sync's over all the technical debt and limits my pre-testing abilities. I would like to setup a new GTM Domain in the new DC, build some automation for the WideIP / Pool creation, and manually review / rebuild all the necessary records in the new DC. My hangup is that this is ONLY possible if the LTM appliance can join multiple GTM domains. Can a single LTM appliance join multiple GTM domains and report status to multiple appliances? I don't have an easy way to build a test environment and build this out with VE's and validate so I am hoping for some input from the community.
Proxy Protocol v2 Initiator
Problem this snippet solves: Proxy Protocol v1 related articles have already been posted on DevCentral, but there is no v2 support iRule code available. A customer wanted to support Proxy Protocol v2, so I wrote an iRule code for supporting v2. Proxy protocol for the BIG-IP (f5.com) How to use this snippet: Back-end server must handle Proxy header prior data exchange. Code : when CLIENT_ACCEPTED { # DEBUG On/Off set DEBUG 0 set v2_proxy_header "0d0a0d0a000d0a515549540a" # v2 version and command : 0x21 - version 2 & PROXY command set v2_ver_command "21" # v2 address family and transport protocol : 0x11 - AF_INET (IPv4) & TCP protocol set v2_af_tp "11" # v2 Address Size : 0x000C - 12 bytes for IPv4 + TCP set v2_address_length "000c" # Get TCP port - 2 byte hexadecimal format set src_port [format "%04x" [TCP::client_port]] set dst_port [format "%04x" [TCP::local_port]] # Get Src Address and convert to 4 byte hexadecimal format foreach val [split [IP::client_addr] "."] { append src_addr [format "%02x" $val] } # Get Dst Address and convert to 4 byte hexadecimal format foreach val [split [IP::local_addr] "."] { append dst_addr [format "%02x" $val] } # Build proxy v2 data set proxy_data [binary format H* "${v2_proxy_header}${v2_ver_command}${v2_af_tp}${v2_address_length}${src_addr}${dst_addr}${src_port}${dst_port}"] if { $DEBUG } { binary scan $proxy_data H* proxy_dump log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]_[IP::local_addr]:[TCP::local_port] - proxy_data dump : $proxy_dump" } } when SERVER_CONNECTED { TCP::respond $proxy_data }
Failing over of a Virtual F5 configuration to another location using Zerto restore process
We are preparing a process for disaster recovery to use Zerto to copy a server had has our virtual F5 configuration to another server at another facility. What needs to be completed by means of moving license keys and changing MAC to recognize the F5 configuration.
AS3 declaration to set cookie to preferred
Hello, I am deploying a new environment with AS3, lovely 🙂, but I am having issues setting the cookie persistence option cookie-encryption to preferred. By default, it is set to required. I checked the AS3 documentation but could not find how to do this. Any ideas? Thanks
