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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">Hoping someone on here has some ideas.. We use BIGIP F5’s for load balancing and they have health monitors on them that decide when to offline a pool member. Every
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">One of the monitors on the IDP is /idp/profile/status and I’ve whitelisted the internal IP addresses of the F5’s in the IDP Access Control. The downside is that any request flowing through the load balancers
takes on that internal IP and such can access my administrative function pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">My options as I see them:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F4E79">Rename administrative flows in IDP to obfuscate them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F4E79">Redirect rules on the F5 to dead-end the administrative urls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F4E79">Implement basic auth on admin urls somehow at the machine level<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">Option 1 sounds the easiest, although least secure. Problem is, I don’t know how to do this. Is there a way to modify the admin functions that won’t get overwritten with an IDP upgrade?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">Option 2 is doable, but the EAS group never likes custom F5 work. Grumpy folks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">Option 3 would require Apache I believe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79">Other options?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F4E79"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">____________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ken Koch</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> | Sr. Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Information Services and Technology | Washington University in St. Louis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">7425 Forsyth Blvd., Campus Box 1110 | St. Louis, MO 63105<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">w 314-935-8315 | c 314-223-7256 |
<a href="mailto:ken@wustl.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">ken@wustl.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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