Prerequisites for F5 BIG-IP Devices

To manage F5 BIG-IP devices, follow the steps below:

  1. Ensure you have a Licensed version of the iControl jar for F5 BIG-IP devices (Refer:https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/iControl-Library-For-Java-With-Source).
  2. Download the axis.jar from the axis library.
  3. Download the javax.xml.soap-api-1.4.0.jar from the file library.
  4. In the AppViewX Cloud Connector installation package, copy the iControl jar, axis jar, and the javax.xml.soap-api-1.4.0.jar to the folder /deps/external_libs.
Note: If the pre-requisite libraries are placed manually to the installed/upgraded Cloud Connector, then restart the pods by executing the commands below.
cd <cc_installation_directory>/deps/tools
./k3s kubectl delete pods -A --all --force
Note: Check with the Customer Support team that the iControl jar has been uploaded to the AWS instance. Without these three upload operations, F5 functionalities, except config-fetch, will fail with the following error message: The pre-requisite library required for managing the F5 vendor is not configured. Please contact the system admin for more details.