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Sumit_145954
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Jun 22, 2017

Unable to take the GUI of F5 BIG IP instance on AWS

Hi Team, I have configured the F5 BIG IP VM instance using F5 Market Place, I am able to take the SSH. But i am unable to take the GUI using its public IP. Please advice.

 

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  • Please include some more details on your configuration. Are you using a VPN and is the 443 allowed for the security group applied to BIG-IP's network? Are you using a single route table or have north south networks?

     

    Without knowing further, this does work if the AWS instance is setup to allow BIG-IP's mgmt port 443 in/out to your network (NEVER use 0.0.0.0).

     

    A secondary recommendation would be to always use an Amazon Workspace jump box for management of AWS resources like BIG-IP GUI (this is what I do). For the rest of the community, if you can please provide more detail on the network config of BIG-IP and AWS without compromising your infrastructure.