Offloading authentication
I am totally new to F5 world and my understanding to some of F5 features can be incorrect... so our customer is going to use F5 LTM that will mange a number servers/services. Now we are trying to come up with different authentication solutions. One solution I read about is the possibility to offload authentication to F5 - is my understanding correct that F5 could handle application authentication? If yes is it possible to create a set of user groups per application - so that when request comes in F5 knows how to authenticate it based on target application? If the authentication offloading is possible then other question I am trying to get answer for is how F5 accesses users data? Currently users are stored in DB2 database are there any ways to hook F5 to such data source?
Can someone shed some light on these questions?
Thank you.