The Brocade ADX offers 2 ways to configure SSL. These are, SSL (Termination) – Allows for SSL termination at the loadbalancer so that unencrypted traffic can be sent onto the backend servers. This is also known as client side encryption/decryption. SSL Proxy – Allows for the Brocade ADX to decrypt and then re-encrypt the traffic … Read more
When trying to view your SNMP configuration from within the Web UI you may observe the following error: No object identifier specified in context Solution To resolve this remove the community via bigpipe and save. You will then notice that the SNMP community has been removed via the Web UI. This can then be re-added … Read more
Issue You may observe that ICMP response (return) traffic is randomly dropped by the F5. This behaviour occurs when using tagged VLANs and packet-filters on the F5.Below shows the issue in further detail. An ICMP Ping is initiated from the F5 and a packet capture is run. We can see from the Ping that the … Read more
Within this article we will show you how to deny traffic based on the HTTP User-Agent header. This is achieved by configuring a header-field-group. Within this group we define a header string rule that matches any header that does not contain a defined string. This group is then associated to a content rule. header-field-group deny-agent … Read more
A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a base-64 encoded (PEM based) string which is generated using the users public key along with a number of attributes provided by the user such as DN, email, address etc. The CSR is then sent to the CA which it then uses to create a public certificate. The public … Read more
Purpose The purpose of this document is to explain the issues and problems surrounding the use of static NAT when using policy based VPN on a Juniper SRX Firewall. Background The issue, when using static NAT with a policy based VPN centres around how NAT is processed by the SRX, in that the Proxy ID`s … Read more
The Brocade ADX provides the ability to capture network traffic which can then be viewed later for further analysis. This is achieved via the debug filter.Within this article we will provide the necessary steps required to configure, run, save and then export a debug filter. Debug Filter Mode First of all we enter the debug … Read more
Within this article we will look at the commands required to clear the debug-filter buffer on an ADX Loadbalancer.The command that is used to clear the buffer is “no buffer-size <buffer size>”. Below shows the necessary steps. First of all we place ourselves into the debug filter prompt. We check the amount that we have … Read more
When running Joomla 2.5 you may observe the following error : JFolder::create: Could not create directory Solution This error is typically related to permissions. To resolve the issue run the following commands (replacing the path with the path of your Joomla installation). cd /var/www/html/joomla-sitefind . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;find . -type d … Read more
The Brocade ADX offers 3 types of HA. There are : Sym Active-Standby – Sym Active-Standby is only available on Router code. Both devices receive traffic but only the VIP with the highest sym-priority processes the traffic.Sym Active-Active – Sym Active-Active is only available on Router code. Both devices receive traffic, traffic for each VIP … Read more