Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP AAM
- 12.1.0
BIG-IP APM
- 12.1.0
BIG-IP LTM
- 12.1.0
BIG-IP DNS
- 12.1.0
BIG-IP ASM
- 12.1.0
Additional Tasks for Isolated Guests in Appliance Mode
Additional tasks for isolated guests in Appliance mode
To ensure that guest administrators can access an isolated guest and manage the BIG-IP® software within the guest, you must create the isolated guest with Appliance mode disabled, perform some additional tasks, and then modify the guest to enable Appliance mode. These additional tasks are:
- Creating a self IP address for guest administrators to use to access the guest, and granting tmsh access to the guest's admin user account.
- Enabling Appliance mode on the guest.
After performing these tasks, administrators for an isolated guest are restricted to using either the BIG-IP® Configuration utility or tmsh to manage BIG-IP modules within the guest (when port lockdown settings on the self IP address allow such traffic).
Preparing an isolated guest for Appliance mode
You use this task to prepare an isolated guest to operate in Appliance mode. Specifically, you use this task to:
- Grant access to the Traffic Management Shell (tmsh) for the admin user account within a vCMP® guest. Because the admin user for an isolated guest in Appliance mode is restricted to using tmsh, you must first grant the admin account permission to use tmsh. By default, the admin account for a guest has no access to tmsh.
- Create a self IP address for guest administrators to use to access the guest. This is necessary because an isolated guest is not connected to the management network and therefore has no management IP address assigned to it.
You perform this task by accessing the guest from the vCMP® host.
Enabling Appliance mode on an isolated guest
You use this task to enable Appliance mode on an existing guest that is isolated from the management network.