Configuration guides for IT Administrators

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Use HTTP::respond instead of HTTP:redirect to redirect to 301 (Permanent Redirect) with a suitable status code and Location header

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With BIG-IP F5 appliance, you can encrypt all traffic between client and back end server using the same SSL certificate and Key. The client establishes three-way handshake and SSL connection with a Virtual Server IP address on F5 system. The F5 system then establishes three-way handshake and SSL connection with the server. In the later…

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Firefox automatically redirects website to https and causes problem. You can fix by disabling browser.urlbar.autoFill and removing entry in SiteSecurityServiceState.txt file.

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For servers that reside behind load balancers like F5, X-Forwarded-For is used to log actual client IP address in the servers logs. Unlike in Apache, you need to perform additional step in IIS to log client IP address. Otherwise, you won’t find it in the IIS logs. Step 1: Install Custom Logging in IIS 10…

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Our customer was performing Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration along with Enterprise Vault upgrade. And I was asked to migrate from TMG to F5. I use F5 iapp f5.microsoft_exchange_2016.v1.0.2 to configure Exchange 2016 co-existence with Exchange 2010 and SSL profile is enabled at both client and server end in Virtual Server. Outlook, ActiveSync and OWA…

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Step by step guide to upgrade the latest software image on F5 units. The procedure is still the same whether you upgrade a single unit or active/standby F5 deployed environment.

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Are you experiencing problem of no traffic directed to a pool members? Have you got multiple iRules associated to a specific virtual server and do you experience problem with the order of iRule being executed? The solution to above problems is defining Priority in F5 iRule. Know About iRule behavior iRules are loaded into an…

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Problem is When you access Outlook Web Access (OWA) as for example https://mail.itadminguide.com, F5 redirects your request to actual CAS server address, https://hubcas1/owa instead of retaining the request URL. Solution is In you are facing this problem then it means SSL is configured on CAS Server hence choose SSL Bridging in your F5 Exchange iApp…

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View All Active Connections Use the command tmsh show /sys connection to view all active connections of all Virtual Servers of F5 unit [root@F5LB] config # tmsh show /sys connection Really display 1000 connections? (y/n) y Sys::Connections 37.210.120.242:50254 192.168.2.103:443 192.168.2.203:50254 192.168.2.41:7003 tcp 20 (tmm: 3) none none This diagram helps you to understand the traffic…

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In order to determine the client IP that sends requests to a Web Server placed behind an F5 appliance, you can attach this iRule to your virtual server. This iRule logs the requested Client IP address under System > Logs > Local Traffic. This iRule logs following Client IP address Request URL X-Forwarded-For header value…

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