Manual Chapter :
Managing Virtual Servers in Shared Security
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 6.0.1
Managing Virtual Servers in Shared Security
About virtual servers
On BIG-IP® devices, virtual servers can have security objects, such as DoS
profiles, SSH profiles, or log profiles, attached to them. You create virtual servers using the
Local Traffic service, and then use them from within Shared Security. You can modify only some of
the virtual server properties within Shared Security. To modify other virtual server properties,
use the Local Traffic service.
The BIG-IQ® Centralized Management system can successfully discover only
BIG-IP devices that are using supported profile types. If the system attempts to discover a
BIG-IP device that is using an unsupported type of profile:
- You might see an invalid profile error during discovery.
- The BIG-IQ Centralized Management system does not successfully discover the BIG-IP device.
Edit virtual servers
You can modify virtual servers
within Shared Security to manage the security objects that might be part of a virtual
server. To modify other virtual server properties, use the Local Traffic
service.
- Click .
- On the Virtual Servers screen, click the name of the virtual server to edit.
- On the virtual servers properties screen, modify the editable the properties as needed.You can change only some of the properties.
- In theDoS Profilesetting, select the DoS profile to use.You define DoS profiles using the Shared Security DoS Profiles screen.
- In theSSH Profilesetting, select the SSH profile to use.You define SSH profiles using the Shared Security SSH Profiles screen.
- In theIP Intelligencesetting, select the IP intelligence policy to use.You define IP intelligence policies using the Shared Security IP Intelligence Policies screen.
- In theMaximum Bandwidthsetting, type the maximum bandwidth allowed, in Mbps.Set this value to 0 to specify no bandwidth limit.
- In theLog Profilessetting, select one or more log profiles to use.You define log profiles using the Shared Security Logging Profiles screen.
- Save your work.
The virtual server is updated with
your changes. You make other changes to the virtual server using this screen: .
Configure DoS event logging from the virtual server
You enable DoS event logging using the virtual servers displayed
in the list. When enabled, you can view these DoS events using the screens.
- Click .The Virtual Servers screen opens.
- To enable logging of DoS events, click the check box next to the virtual server to configure, and clickConfigure DoS Logging.To disable logging of DoS events, click the check box next to the virtual server to configure, and clickDisable DoS Logging.
The DoS Logging Configuration dialog box opens so that you can begin the configuration
process.
Review the information about the configuration
process before continuing. This is described in the
Monitoring DoS events
topics in
F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management: Monitoring and
Reporting
on support.f5.com
. 
