Users Guide
Setting Up F5 BIGIP VNF Package | Configuring Virtualization
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Discovery profiles are created by your system administrator or someone within your
organization with administrative permissions.
g. Leave the Boot Wait Time field blank.
The OpenManage Network Manager system assigns a default integer value of 0 after
you save the profile.
h. Review your inputs to ensure accuracy.
12
Save the software image record.
13
Locate and Select the newly created Software Image Record and export it to an archive disk
location for backup purposes.
Manually Applying an F5 License
Due to license requirements and logistics for the F5 BIGIP VE instances, you need to work directly
with F5 to obtain and apply a license. This section provides an example on how to apply a license
obtained from F5. The example covers applying the AFM (Firewall product feature set) license
after you successfully booted a VM from the F5-BIGIP-12.1.1.0.0.184-ALL-SS1 snapshot created in
Creating a VM Snapshot
on page 804.
Consult the F5 Networks product documentation or contact the F5 Support team directly for
further instructions on configuring the BIGIP VE VM following license activation.
Manually apply an F5 AFM (Firewall) features license from the OpenStack system as follows.
1
Login using the admin user account to the running VM housed in the OpenStack system to
be licensed using https.
2
Navigate to the Main Tab.
A Setup Utility wizard is displayed.
3
Click Next.
The Setup > Utility > License information is displayed.
4
Click Activate.
5
Locate the registration key value from the text provided by F5.
6
Enter the license properties.
a. Enter the base registration key provided by F5.