Check optic information and data
Hi All, One of our customers has two r4600 appliances and on those appliances is a BIP-IP tenant configured. The two BIG-IP tenants are configured in a Device Group (Sync and Fail-Over). Both appliances are in different data centers so customer is using a MRV solution to create connectivity between the data centers. This solution has been there for many years and is working fine when connecting their infrastructure. Now we want to use the MRV solution to connect both r4600 appliances for config sync and network fail-over. We have F5 SFP's in the r4600 appliances but when we connect them (on both sides) to the MRV hardware, there is no link. When we connect the r4600 appliance to a switch, we have link and the interface is UP. Customer checked the MRV setup and the fiber path between the data centers and they seem to be OK. No other issues are reported with the link between the data centers. As a work-around, we have configured ethernet ports to connect both r4600 appliance for sync and network fail-over and those ports are connected to access ports on a switch. But customer prefers to use the 10Gbe interfaces connected to the MRV solution. How can we troubleshoot this on the F5 side? Are there commands to get optic data on a very low level to see what is going on? Any tips and tricks are welcome. Regards, Martijn
R-Series Appliance No GUI ( host system gui ) after 1.7.0 upgrade
After running the 1.7.0 upgrade for the r-series 5000 appliance - the login screen does not display in a browsers. Admin and Root passwords are as they were before upgrade. mgmt-ip settings are the same. Device can ping it's upstream router in the mgmt-ip network. the device mgmt-ip address does not reply to ping ( or any request [ ssh, http...]) from the console I can see the whole running config - it is the same as before the upgrade Any help is appreciated, Dave Mehlberg
Sizing for HW and SW based
I am looking for a data for dimensioning for r5800 / 6000 etc where I am deploying DNS+PEM+AFM+URL Filtering + some iRules on ONE rSeries The same witch I am looking for is for VE deployment Where I can find data about such figures I can only find for DNS QPS, but for the rest of the modules can't Are there any exact numbers? How can I combine and calculate this module and see if feet into rSeries and VE HP??
BIG-IP rseries license
Hi community, I plan to buy 2 new R4600 to replace the current 4000s(c113) ASM licensed. F5 have changed they lincesning model and I am a bit confiused about what exactly I need to purchase. On the new device I need the following features: Basic LTM (VS with 2,3 backend servers) iRules L7 attack protection IPS Can you pelase suggest what license modules cover the above items? I can not go for Best bundle becouse of too high price. Thanks!
F5 2600 rseries Tenant reprovisioning
Dears, I configured one tenant on my F5 2600 rseries and in the tenant setting I configured it to use 4 CPU and chose the recommended option so the tenant takes 12288 memory,this is the minimum so is that applicable to allocate another memory after I configured it and it now runningrSeries and tenant upgrades
I manage four r5900 appliances, hosting 16 tenants. The appliances are running F5OS-A 1.5.0; the tenants all run BIG-IP 15.1.10.2. We all know, of course, that the most recent QSN was released today. Normally, I'd upgrade everything to the latest version. However, where F5OS-A 1.7.0 is concerned, there is a "Known Issue" that raises a big red flag. In the release notes, 1380705-1 : BIG-IP tenant is stuck during boot up after doing tenant upgrade from 15.1.x to 17.1.x The issue description says this will not happen with every tenant. But it just has to happen once to ruin a day, right? In the past, I have always upgraded the appliance OS before upgrading the tenants. That just seemed to make sense. Given this issue, though, I am considering upgrading all of the tenants to BIG-IP 17.1.1.3 first, then upgrading the appliances to F5OS-A 1.7.0. Does anybody know of any pitfalls to this approach?F5 Rseries HA
Dears, I know that there is no HA between rseries appliance, and the HA will be configured between tenants on each appliance, my question her about when i prepare to configure HA between Tenant so before making this i will configure the network setting and VLAN on F5OS so I will need a dedicated interface and HA VLAN between two tenants on each appliance so what is the next step after I configured the network setting on Appliance (F5OS), and what i need to confirm on the network setting that i will configure on each appliance (F5OS) to make HA between the two tenantsF5OS support for TACACS+ over CLI
We ran into issues deploying rSeries and VELOS platforms on the network at our company using a custom form of TACACS+. Our implementation allows for application-specific domains with unique ports and keys. We had issues with it until we added the attribute value pairs to the TACACS+ domain profiles: Admin (unlimited_config): F5-F5OS-UID=1001 F5-F5OS-GID=9000 Operator (unlimited_enable): F5-F5OS-UID=1001 F5-F5OS-GID=9001 This change resolved the access issues via GUIand we are able to access using our TACACS+ credentials, but it does NOT work via CLI for access using the same credentials. We already have a case out to F5 about this, but I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same implementation challenge on accessing CLI using TACACS+.
