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ehinkle_104407
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Mar 12, 2014

APM APP tunnel for non HTTP/HTTPS applications

Is it possible to create a webtop portal app that is not http or https based? I have seen Microsoft forefront present an client server application via a portal page by having the client installed on the client computer and then clicking an icon on the portal page that allowed connectivity to that single application server configure on the backend.

 

When trying to create a web app in F5 it looks like you have to have a url for the application.

 

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  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Mar 13, 2014

    yeah an App tunnel should work for TCP traffic fine at least, not sure about UDP and others. the tricky part might getting the application to launch and connect to it.

     

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    amolari
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    Mar 13, 2014

    I think UDP traffic through Application Tunnel is not supported. To configure that check: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/manuals/product/apm-application-access-11-4-0/1.html?sr=35839446

     

  • ehinkle_104407's avatar
    ehinkle_104407
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    Mar 14, 2014

    The link provided does not go into much detail on how to setup a now HTTP/HTTPS app tunnel and looking a the parameters section it seems like it only handles http.

    For the Parameters setting, specify any parameters associated with the application that starts with the Application Path. The parameters you can add are:

    %host% - This is substituted with the loopback host address, for example http://%host%/application/.
%port% - The loopback port. Use this if the original local port has changed due to conflicts with other software.
  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Mar 16, 2014

    what do you want to do? you could for example tunnel ftp and use the %host% and %port% in that also. it really isnt limited to http(s).

     

  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Mar 18, 2014

    you configure the destination host / ip and port / port range, so you could do that, not sure how well it would work.

     

    in version 11.5.0 the gui shows some "default" ports including: FTP, telnet, PPTP, SSH, SNMP to show what is possible.

     

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    ehinkle_104407
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    Mar 19, 2014

    I want to allow a client application installed on a remote users computer to connect to the server located in our network. It is a windows client app that connects using rpc and various other ports. That is the reason to allow any.

     

    On another note, is it possible to map a drive via the webtop?