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Mar 09, 2016
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bigiq deployment

Hello,   we have purchased the BigIq as a successor of our EM. The documentation is not very clear to me for the use of self ip's.   Do I need them at all? Can't I just use the mgmt. int for al...
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    Mar 09, 2016

    You can use the management IP for all communications to/from BIG-IQ and BIG-IP. It is our suggested configuration for more recent versions of BIG-IQ. If you use a self-ip, some communication (for example: update of the REST framework) will still try to use the management IP.