F5 APM with Horizon View 7.4 / HTML5

Donamato, we have been troubleshooting an issue with HTML5 and Horizon View 7.4 for a few weeks now.

 

While reading the release notes for 12.1.3.3 today, I stumbled upon this gem:

 

708005-3 : Users cannot use Horizon View HTML5 client to launch Horizon 7.4 resources Component: Access Policy Manager

 

Symptoms: When using VMware View HTML5 client, end users are able to authenticate and see available View resources on the APM webtop. However, any attempt to launch the resource (desktop or application) in HTML5 mode momentarily appears to function, but then redirects to the initial APM login page.

 

Conditions: This occurs when the following conditions are met: -- APM is protecting VMware Horizon View 7.4 resources. -- End user tries to launch a View resource from the APM webtop using the Horizon View HTML5 client.

 

Impact: End user cannot launch VMware View resources with View HTML5 client.

 

Workaround: -- If you are already running Horizon 7.4, use native View clients instead.

 

-- If you have not upgraded to Horizon 7.4, stay on older Horizon releases until a workaround/fix is implemented for this issue.

 

My vCMP guest is currently running 12.1.3.1. I was hoping to find documentation that shows this known issue is fixed in version 13.1, but nothing yet.

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-12-1-3-3.htmlA708005-3

 

I cant find the article right now of how, but you also have to change Horizon to look at machines via DNS name and not IP , else you'll get cert errors

 

We recompose our pools so often that dns goes out of sync for us and this is not an option , so I left it, but I did try the irule above + new firmware and I think it'll work