NimbostratusA customer requires that Geolocation information be captured and logged on the F5, as only anonymised information allowed to the back end server farm. To take advantage of the geolocation capabilities on the F5 working otherwise purely as Reverse Proxy with only LTM licensed, what do I need to further enable or license?
NimbostratusHi,
Your customer doesn't need anything else than his LTM licence.
When you want to use geolocation, you just have to update the database following this kb entry : http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/100/sol11176.html
NimbostratusThank you. So no licenses or other modules necessary for my current needs. If there were other use cases, what would I need to do and when (license and Module options)? For example, if I needed to forward this information to the back end servers or wanted more than basic query information?
AltostratusThe default license allows for utilization of the geolocation information on the LTM only. For example, you can use it for logging (on the LTM), making load balancing decisions, and manipulation of the request. The license does not allow forwarding the geolocation information to a node.
However, according to the information on f5.com you can contact your sales rep to obtain permission for this.
PS I'm still unclear how the license would play out for something like changing the URL by adding a specific geolocation information to the path (e.g. rewriting /home/ to /uk/home/. On the one hand that would be allowed as it is the LTM that uses the geolocation information, but it also sends the result of the geolocation lookup to the back-end...
AltostratusArticle: F5 Friday: I am in UR HTTP Headers Sharing Geolocation Data
Customers can now obtain a EULA waiver which permits certain off-box use cases. This allows customers to use the geolocation data included with BIG-IP in applications residing on a server or servers in an “off box” fashion. For example, location information may be embedded into an HTTP header or similar and then sent on to the server for it to perform some geo-location specific action.
Customers (existing or new) can contact their F5 sales representative to start the process of obtaining the waiver necessary to enable the legal use of this data in an off-box fashion.