Virtual Server creation
Hello, I am new to F5 and using the evaluation version of F5 (Big IP LTM Virtual Edition). I am facing problem while creating the virtual server for tomcat application. F5 Big-IP LTM VE is running on VMPlayer. And I can access the admin page of F5 via https://> I want to test F5 with 3 tomcat applications which are running as cluster. All my three tomcat instances are on same machine with different port. http://:8081//cluter-example/test.jsp http://:8082//cluter-example/test.jsp http://:8083//cluter-example/test.jsp I tested out successfully this cluster with Apache server. As I do not have much idea as how to create Virtual server which will use my newly created pool which has all the three tomcat instances. I tried to create Virtual server with following parameter: Type : host Address : some random IP address. Service port : 80 with HTTP VLAN and tunnel traffic : All VLAN and tunnel SNAT Pool : autoMap Afterward I try to access the virtual server as http://>:80 And then getting nothing (I am expecting it should go to one of the tomcat instance) I tried with http://>:80/cluster-example/test.jsp but same result. In Health monitor side I used Send String : GET /cluster-example/test.jsp Please let me know what are the things I am missing and why given virtual IP with 80 port as HTTP... its not redirecting to tomcat application side. -Sandeep
Horizon View "This Page is Not Secure"
I have a connection to my VDI desktops via F5 (build using the iApp) and it essentially works i.e. I can get a virtual desktop although with a slight issue. To start with I enter the URL e.g. https://myvdi.mydomain.com Then after authenticating on the connection server and making my choice of desktop, the URL in the address bar changes to an IP in the range of the private LAN for the virtual desktops e.g. https://10.180.0.80:22443/d/DE841123-FE72-4C6D-A9F3-2E6B7072D7E1/certAccept.html?numPages=3 This results in a typical "this site is not secure" page in IE which I have to manually press on "go on to the webpage." Once I manually continue everything is fine as the URL is then https://myvdi.mydomain.com/portal/webclient/index.html/desktop and I get my authenticated, secure desktop. Does anyone know how I can stop this behaviour?
One or more devices are unreachable. Resolve any communication problems before attempting to sync.
I would appreciate any help with the following error I am getting: "One or more devices are unreachable. Resolve any communication problems before attempting to sync." Environment: Product: Two F5 LTM VE's Version: BIG-IP 11.3.0 Build 39.0 VE Trial 11.3.0-HF1 (based on BIGIP 11.3.0HF6) Running on top of ESXi 5.5.0 (currently on the same ESXi host) Able to ping from LTM1 to LTM2 over the Management, Internal, External, and HA interfaces Both devices have each other in their Peer List Both devices contain a fully populated Device List Both devices are part of a Device Group with Sync-Failover and Network Failover configured Have tried resetting the device trust and even rebuilding the F5 LTM's from scratch a couple times LTM1 Overview Page Sync Summary / Status:Awaiting Initial Sync / Summary:The device group is awaiting the initial config sync / Details:Recommended action: Synchronize one of the devices to the group LTM1:Awaiting Initial Sync / LTM2:Disconnected The following error shows up under Sync Options: "One or more devices are unreachable. Resolve any communication problems before attempting to sync." LTM2 Overview Page Sync Summary / Status:Awaiting Initial Sync / Summary:The device group is awaiting the initial config sync / Details:Recommended action: Synchronize one of the devices to the group LTM1:Disconnected / LTM2:Awaiting Initial Sync The following error shows up under Sync Options: "One or more devices are unreachable. Resolve any communication problems before attempting to sync." Any help getting HA up and running would be much appreciated. Thanks, SDTechOps
F5 BIG-IP LTM VE with VMware Workstation or VirtualBox
Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me out with the network configuration of the f5 BIG-IP VE on either Vmware Workstation or VirtualBox. I was able to get it up and running. However there are 3 virtual interfaces that come with it. I'm not sure what virtual interface in either VMware or VBox is associated to what interface on the f5 ltm. The three are Adapter 1 Bridged, Adapter 2, Internal Network, Adapter 3 bridged. I guess what I am asking is which is the front side, which is the backside and which is management? If there's anyone with any experience in getting one of these running I would appreciate the help. I am just trying to set up a little virtual lab for educational use. I work with them but it is all remote work. Having one always accessible as a lab would be a great educational tool. Thanks!
F5 Virtual Appliance
When is F5 going to develop a Virtual Appliance for LTM, GTM, and other options. One of your competitors, Zeus (http://www.zeus.com/products/zxtmva/) has had one for over two years. I am a happy F5 customer but would like more options. A virtual appliance would provide a way for customers and potential customers to demo the products with no hardware required and would be perfect for development & test environments. Zeus allows limited usage of their virtual appliance for dev/test environments for free - hint hint F5.HA pair in VMware v7 update 3 - Should "power on connect" be enabled, or disabled for vlans/network?
Late last year we migrated the vcmp guests off of our 7200 chassis into VMware. Up until now, "Connect at power On" has been diabled for the vlans/networks. The question is whether that should be enabled. The question sent by the Server tech is below... We have noticed that the F5 VMs networks are not checked for “Connect at power On”, should this be the case in our HA F5? We ask this is because we noticed the other HA pair don’t have their network adapter connected and is not connected. Should both HA pairs have their network adapter be checked for “Connect at power On” so they can connect at power on? Thanks!
VMware Horizon View iAPP VDI + HTML5
Greetings! This is my first post and I am not an F5 guru but I am wondering if anyone has gotten all the ports working for VMware Horizon View and the latest iApp for Horizon View. I am specifically wondering if anyone has gotten HTML5 to the desktop working in their environment. We have 4 brokers all running View 5.2. Accessing the individual servers works fine using HTML5. When trying to add 8443 it appears like it will work but it looks like it failing on the connection to the Broker after Authentication. From a Network trace it appears we connect on 443 (authentication) to one broker and then when we try to connect to 8443 (HTML 5 access to the desktop) it fails. If I disable 3 of the 4 pool members it works every time. If I enable 2 of the 4 pool members if fails 50% of the time.... Any advice? Thanks!https monitor with un-trusted certificate
I'm working with an application that doesn't support importing a new SSL certificate. I would like to monitor the application using an https montior like: SEND:"GET /application/api/status\r\n" RECEIVE:"REGISTERED" However when i configure the monitor it does not work. When running a CURL on that URL from an SSH session to the LTM instance i get a certificate warning because its not trusted. I believe this is causing the monitor to fail. Is there a way to tell the monitor to ignore certificate warnings when executing the SEND?Expand disk or add new disk to big-ip VE
Hey We have a VMWare 5.1 environment with big-ip VE and I want to expand the disk its running on due to new apps I want to run on it but dont have the diskspace. Have tried to expand the disk with adding disk space and expanding the disk with basic linux commands, we cannot get that to work and I cannot really find much information about this. I would appreciate if someone could point me to a solution. Thank you
