Connecting to UDF 2.0

This lab goes through the process of launching the demo environment, connecting via Windows RDP, and licensing/resetting the BIG-IP devices.

Launching Deployment

From https://federate.f5.com find the “UDF” link and click on it.

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You should see the main UDF page. Click on the “Blueprints” link.

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Find the “DNS Automation Demo” Blueprint and click on “Deploy”

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You will see “Deploy From Blueprint” and click “Deploy” again.

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You should now see the “DNS Automation Demo” screen that has the “Start” button listed.

Click on “Start”.

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The Deployment is now starting.

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About the Demo Environment

This demo is designed to provide a solution with the following attributes.

  • Two BIG-IP devices in separate Data Centers (Regions, Availability Zone, etc...)
  • Two backend servers in separate DC
  • The two DC are routable to each other via L3
  • Provide recursive DNS for internal clients
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The desired behavior for requests

  • External clients round-robin between backend servers
  • Persist External client requests to original DC server if requests move between DC
  • Internal client requests will have affinity to local DC server
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Servers in the Demo

Hostname MGMT IP Network IP Login / Password
win2008-rdp 10.1.1.10 10.1.20.5 administrator / [see details page]
bigip1 10.1.1.7 10.1.10.240 admin / admin
bigip2 10.1.1.8 10.1.10.240 admin / admin
server1 10.1.1.4 10.1.240.10 centos or user / [ssh key]
server2 10.1.1.5 10.1.250.10 centos or user / [ssh key]
automation 10.1.1.6 10.1.20.8 centos or user / [ssh key]
jenkins 10.1.1.11   ubuntu / [ssh key]

Connecting with Windows RDP

Once the Deployment is finished starting click on the “Components” tab to get a view like the following.

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Find the win2008-rdp component and click on the “Access” button to display the “RDP” link.

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Download/launch the RDP link.

Note that RDP will launch full screen
For HiDPI displays you may want to re-size your screen first

The username is “Administrator” and the password can be found under the “Details” page of the win2008-rdp component. Note: copy/paste of the password into the RDP session does not work. You can copy the password, open the RDP session settings in your RPD clinet and paste the password there. Save it and open the RDP session. You should see a desktop that looks like the following.

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Licensing/Resetting BIG-IP

When a UDF Deployment is started you will need to re-license the device. There are links on the Desktop to expedite this process.

First find the “License” links.

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Double-click on both of these and you should see a window appear briefly like the following.

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Next find the “Resetting” links.

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Double-click on both of these and you should see a window appear briefly like the following.

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The previous steps go through a scripted process of resetting the license and
restoring the system to a known state via a UCS restore.

You are now ready to start the next Lab: Creating BIG-IP DNS Sync Group