BIGIP LTM VE GUI Access

Hi Genseek,

 

 

It sounds like you might have your adapters in the hypervisor mismatched. VE will assign the first interface to the management port, eth0.

 

 

Also, you can check this forum for help on VE:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/community/group/asg/42/showtab/groupforums/aff/73

 

 

Aaron

Thank you for the link Aaron but the link is not opening, hence not able to post there and continuing with this post.

 

 

Am still stuck with GUI access and not able to License.

 

 

I ve access to CLI but not licensed.

 

 

MGMT ip - 192.168.1.245, 255.255.255.0

 

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Am using Vmware Player 5.0, has following 3 interface

 

 

VMnet0 - bridgemode, VMnet1- host only, VMnet2- host onl

 

 

I ve configured my laptop NIC with an IP [ 192.168.1.25 ] in same network as MGMT IP of LTM. But am not able to ping MGMT IP from my laptop.

 

 

Any help would be very, very helpful as am stuck for a week on this and nothing seems to be moving.

 

 

thanks -genseek

OK, can you clarify what is working and what isn't please.

 

 

Do you have access to the GUI? If so, why can't you license the device?

 

Do you have access to the CLI? Is this via SSH?

 

 

You can license via the CLI you know. Please respond and we'll direct our efforts appropriately.

Thank you for the response Steve.

 

 

No, i do not have access to the GUI.

 

 

Yes, CLI access is available via console. No SSH.

 

 

I did not know if we could license via CLI. Please assist.

 

 

genseek.

OK. Could you post the suitably secured output of the following please?

 

 

1) ifconfig

 

2) tmsh list sys management-ip

 

3) tmsh list net interface

 

 

This output should help us determine the cause of your issue and lead to a resolution.

Out put is as below, i could NOT take the output of "ifconfig" cmd..as it is quite long and not visible in single view. Please let me know hw else, i can share the output of ifconfig.

 

 

[root@localhost:NO LICENSE] config tmsh list net interface

 

net interface 1.1 {

 

mac-address 0:c:29:1e:b4:ed

 

media-max 1000T-FD

 

}

 

 

net interface 1.2 {

 

mac-address 0:c:29:1e:b4:f7

 

media-max 1000T-FD

 

}

 

 

net interface mgmt {

 

mac-address 0:c:29:1e:b4:e3

 

media-active 100TX-FD

 

}

 

 

[root@localhost:NO LICENSE] config b mgmt list

 

mgmt 192.168.1.245 {

 

netmask 255.255.255.0

 

}

ifconfig -a | more

 

 

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Could you please enter this command, not the bigpipe one;

 

 

tmsh list sys management-ip

 

Also, what version are you running please?

 

[root@localhost:NO LICENSE] config tmsh list sys management-ip

 

sys managment-ip 192.168.1.245/24 {}

 

 

Version is - 10.1.0 3341.1084

 

 

Thank for the command Hamish but am not able to copy the cmd out put of ifconfig using my mouse. I don't know why i'm not able to do it, even though, i move the cursor to bigip screen using Ctrl+ G.

OK, so does the MAC address shown in the output of ifconfig for eth0 match that shown in the output of tmsh list net interface?

 

 

I take it the IP matches in the output of ifconfig and tmsh list sys management-ip?

 

 

Does ifconfig show the interface as up?

 

 

Did you manually configure the management IP address?

 

 

I use DHCP (which isn't ideal) and in VMWare Workstation all my interfaces are configured as 'bridged'.