Manual Chapter : Enable advanced shell terminal access on managed devices

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • 8.4.0
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Enable advanced shell terminal access on managed devices

To use BIG-IQ to update the geolocation database on your managed BIG-IP devices, Advanced Shell terminal access must be enabled on the devices. Perform this task for each BIG-IP to which you plan to send geolocation update packages.
  1. On the BIG-IP device, click
    System
    Users
    User List
    .
    BIG-IP displays a list of current users defined on this BIG-IP.
  2. Under User Name, click the user name that was used to discover this device.
    In most cases, the user name
    admin
    is used for device discovery.
  3. For Terminal Access, select
    Advanced shell
    .
  4. Click
    Update
    to complete this task.
This BIG-IP device can now accept geolocation updates from the BIG-IQ.